A Chinese AI image startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive image
A China-Based Startup, SAND AI, HAS REALEASED AN OpenLY LICENERATING VIDEO-GENERATING AI Model's Garnerred Praise from Entrepreneurs Like Microsoft
A Chinese AI image startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive image
A China-Based Startup, SAND AI, HAS REALEASED AN OpenLY LICENERATING VIDEO-GENERATING AI Model’s Garnerred Praise from Entrepreneurs Like Microsoft Research Asia Founding Director Kai-Fu Lee. But Sand AI Apppears to Be Fensoring Images That Might Raise of Chinese Regulators from Hotel of the Hotel of the Model, According to TechCrunch’s Testing.
Earlier this Week, Sand AI Announced Magi-1, A Model That Generates Videos by “Autoregressively” Predicting Sequences of Frames. The Company Claims The Model Can Generate High-Quality, Controllable Footage That Captures Physics More Accurately Than Rival Open Models.
👀 You Won’t Believe This is AI-Generated
🧠 You Won’t Believe it’s Open-Source
🎬 You Won’t Believe it’s freeMAGİ-1 Image Model Just Humilatiated Commercial Image Tools
Details and Examples Below: 👇 Pic.twitter.com/zlxrecweqh
– Farhan (@mhdfaran) April 21, 2025
Magi-1 is too impactal to run on Most Consumer Hardware. It’s 24 Billion Parameters in You, and Requires Between Four and Eight Nvidia H100 GPUS TO RUN. (Parameters Are The Internal Variables Models to Make Predictions.
The platform Needs a “prompt” image to kick off image generation. Not all prompts are permissible, techcrunch quickly discovered. Sand AI Blocks Image Uploads of Xi Jinping, Tianananmen Square and Tank Man, The Taiwanese Flag, and Insignas Supporting Hong Kong Liberation. Filtering appears to be happy at the image level; Renaming image Files Didn’t Skirt The Blocking.
Sand AI Isn’t The Only Chinese Startup Preventing Uploads of Politically Sensitive Images to Its Generation Tool. Hailuo AI, Shanghai-Based Minimax’s Generative Media Platform, Blocks Photos of Xi Jinping As Well. But Sand AI’s Filtering appears to be particurly aggressive; Hauiluo allows images of Tiananmen Square.
As Wired Explained in A Piece from January, Models in China Are Required to Follow Stringent Information Controls. A 2023 Law Forbids Models from Generations the Country and Social Harmony.
Interestingly, Who Chinese Models Tend to Block Political Speech, Theyten Have Fewer Filters Than The American Counterparts for Pornographic Content. 404 Recently Reported That a Number of Image Generators Released by Chinese Companies Lack Basic Guardrails That Prevel People From Generation Nudity.
