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It looks like a marketing move. It's a good quality, detailed picture. It's going to get shared a lot. I would assume they knew exactly what they were doing. Nothing like a bit of controversy for extra clicks.


Depicting a man being anally raped by an animal is illegal in many places and immoral for most people. If you're downplaying it, take a walk and think about how you got to this place in your life.


I believe this is not the intention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961397

Elsewhere in the comments they provide a context for it.

Edit: I found the picture and I cannot understand how did you come to your interpretation of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957685

The most I'd say is "a man knocked on the ground and dominated by the horse of the unknown sex".


> If you're downplaying it

You're reading way too much into what I wrote.


Well good thing that's not what they posted then right


Because every ML researcher is a viral social media expert.

(I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic)


This is not some random ML researcher doing fun things at home. Qwen is backed by Alibaba cloud. They likely have whole departments of marketing people available.




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