Baidu has refuted a South China Morning Post (SCMP) report linking its Ernie Bot to a university affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army cyberwarfare division.
SCMP had cited an academic paper by PLA Information Engineering University that mentioned several large language models (LLM), including GPT3.5, GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT4, HTML-T5, and Ernie Bot.
“Ernie Bot is available to and used by the general public. Baidu has not engaged in any business collaboration or provided any tailored service to authors of the academic paper or any institutions with which they are affiliated,” said Baidu, whose stock price on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange plunged dipped 12 percent because of the story.
SCMP has since clarified and amended its report.
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