TIKTOK OWNER BYTEDANCE POWERED AN E-READER'S UNHINGED AI ASSISTANT

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Boox e-readers, which used ByteDance's Doubao LLM, were criticized for spreading Chinese propaganda. Doubao responded to specific questions with pro-China, Russia, and North Korea narratives while criticizing Western countries. Following backlash, Boox reportedly switched back to OpenAI's GPT-3.