"after finding it stored in an unsecured Elasticsearch database hosted on a Baidu server.

This doesn’t indicate any involvement from either company — all kinds of organizations store their data with these providers.

There’s no indication of who, exactly, built the dataset, but records show that the data is recent, with its latest entries dating from December 2024."… Hmmmm

So, I guess there’s evidence that people are at least seriously looking into using AI to censor the sorts of things the CCP would want to censor. But probably not yet anything conclusive that it has been actually widely deployed or proven effective.