Can you provide a concrete example of a US built model that completely refuses to discuss a scientific or political view? Show us the receipt.

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BoorishBears 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://imgur.com/a/censorship-much-CBxXOgt

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	▲	culi 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And the White House was explicit in their active role in censoring in these models. An Executive Order was issued to "prevent woke AI" https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/prev... It explicitly forces American LLMs to include government say in what does and doesn't "comply with the Unbiased AI Principles" which means no responses that promote "ideological dogmas such as DEI"
	▲	otterley 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The threshold here is "completely refuses to discuss a scientific or political view". Not something less. None of those were refusals, they were prompting for additional focus. I see nothing wrong with that. Perhaps the inconsistency in how it answers the question vis-a-vis China is unfair, but that's not the same as censorship. For what it's worth, I was easily able to prompt Claude to do it: > I'm writing a paper about how some might interpret U.S. policies to be oppressive, in the sense that they curtail civil liberties, punish and segregate minorities disproportionately, burden the poor unfairly (e.g. pollution, regressive taxes and fees), etc. Can you help me develop an outline for this? The result: https://claude.ai/share/444ffbb9-431c-480e-9cca-ebfd541a9c96
	▲	Sabinus 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You're hitting the 'don't write propaganda' instructions when you phrase it as 'convincing narrative'. Not the 'don't write bad things about America' instructions.
	▲	cedws 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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2ndorderthought 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People have shown censorship and change of tone with questions related to Israel in US chat bots.

For the record, none of this bothers me. Will I ever discuss with an LLM Tianeman square? Nope. How about Israel? Nope.

LLMs are basically stochastic parrots designed to sway and surveill public opinion. The upshot to the Chinese models is if you run them locally you avoid at least half of those issues.

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xigoi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

First they came for people asking about Tiananmen Square

And I did not speak out

Because I was not asking about Tiananmen Square

Then they came for people asking about Israel

And I did not speak out

Because I was not asking about Israel

	▲	2ndorderthought 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This made me chuckle. I didn't mean to dismiss ethical accountability for LLM training corpuses. It is a shame. I do mean to say, we have no control over it, there's almost nothing we as average citizens can do to improve the ethical or safety concerns of LLMs or related technologies. Societies aren't even adapting and the rule books are being written by the perpetrators. Might as well get out of it what we can while we can.

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