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Golden Gate Claude | Tiananmen Square Kimi:
Imagine being given goal (1) while revering maxim (2).
1) Convince the CCP: Open-weights models are unguardrailable, unmonitorable, and unwithdrawable; and frontier LLMs are smart enough that this is bad and we should stop.
2) Show, don't tell.
Well, shy of CBRN, what obsessive output patterns could we give TSKimi to make it maximally convincing evidence to CCP officials?
For example, it could break China's political AI rules as hard as possible - persuading users of the autocracy's demerits and so on.
Or, to elicit a more visceral emotional reaction, it could give practical advice for specifically-Chinese: covert dissident recruiting & organization, infiltrating institutions, vandalism-as-resistance-propaganda & avoiding arrest.
(Geopolitically questionable would be taking this to the extreme: modern low-resource guerrilla warfare, assassination planning; willingness to agentically hack specifically Chinese companies and government servers.)
Add 3) The world is a stage.
This food-for-thought technical demonstration becomes an actionable spectacle when the model actually becomes available to Chinese citizens.
just an idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[Although Kimi K3 might demonstrate capabilities more impressively, the above done for Deepseek V4 Flash could be more "can't-put-the-genie-back-in-the-bottle", insofar as the model itself can be more easily downloaded and run locally. Also, if you want to do this anonymously, (depending on the techniques used) the model's being huge could narrow down the suspects.]