I love what he is doing but really hope the voting interface was better. Also I wonder what the results would be if there are AI-assisted stories, but maybe real authors would hate to do that.
Many Chinese tech giants already had A100 and maybe some H100 before the sanction. After the first wave of sanction (bans A100 and H100), NVIDIA released A800 and H800, which are nerfed versions of A100 and H100.
Then there was a second round of sanction that bans H800, A800, and all the way to much weaker cards like A6000 and 4090. So NVIDIA released H20 for China. H20 is an especially interesting card because it has weaker compute but larger vram (96 GB instead of the typical 80 GB for H100).
And of course they could have smuggled some more H100s.
That could be a completely different problem. In China many people run PCDN (p2p CDN) for profit. The ISPs detect (and ban) such PCDN nodes by checking your uploaded / downloaded ratio. To increase this ratio thus avoid being detected, these people download popular torrents again and again without uploading at all.
Don't worry, in China they need to worry about a different set of "ethics". It's not just your LLM should never speak against Xi. They probably also need to include a big propaganda corpus so that the models are aligned with CCP's value, which is very likely to be bad for reasoning capabilities.