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Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

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Yes, exactly this. One of the main reasons for ChatGPT being so successful is censorship. Remember that Microsoft launched an AI on Twitter like 10 years ago and within 24 hours they shut it down for outputting PR-unfriendly messages. They are protecting a business just as our AIs do. I can probably bring up a hundred topics that our AIs in EU in US refuse to approach for the very same reason. It's pure hypocrisy.

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Ah so you love censorship when you agree with it?

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Why is this surprising? Isn't it mandatory for chinese companies to do adhere to the censorship? Aside from the political aspect of it, which makes it probably a bad knowledge model, how would this affect coding tasks for example? One could argue that Anthropic has similar "censorships" in place (alignment) that prevent their model from doing illegal stuff - where illegal is defined as something not legal (likely?) i…

here's an example of how model censorship affects coding tasks: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603

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Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

#124

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Yes, exactly this. One of the main reasons for ChatGPT being so successful is censorship. Remember that Microsoft launched an AI on Twitter like 10 years ago and within 24 hours they shut it down for outputting PR-unfriendly messages. They are protecting a business just as our AIs do. I can probably bring up a hundred topics that our AIs in EU in US refuse to approach for the very same reason. It's pure hypocrisy.

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It's weird you got downvoted; you're correct, that chat bot was spewing hate speech at full blast, it was on the news everywhere. (For the uninformed: it didn't get unplugged for being "PR-unfriendly", it got unplugged because nearly every response turned into racism and misogyny in a matter of hours)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)#Initial_release

Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

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The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material

That is not relevant for this discussion, if you don't think of every discussion as an east vs. west conflict discussion.

It's quite relevant, considering the OP was a single word with an example. It's kind of ridiculous to claim what is or isn't relevant when the discussion prompt literally could not be broader (a single word).

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I haven't used qwen3 max yet, but my gut feeling is that they are benchmaxxing. If I were to rate the open models worth using by rank it'd be: - Minimax - GLM - Deepseek

Your ranking is way off, Deepseek crushes Minimax and GLM. It's not even a competition.

Yeah, I get there's nuance between all of them. I ranked Minimax higher for its agentic capabilities. In my own usage, Minimax's tool calling is stronger than Deepseek's and GLM.

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#127

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Yes, exactly this. One of the main reasons for ChatGPT being so successful is censorship. Remember that Microsoft launched an AI on Twitter like 10 years ago and within 24 hours they shut it down for outputting PR-unfriendly messages. They are protecting a business just as our AIs do. I can probably bring up a hundred topics that our AIs in EU in US refuse to approach for the very same reason. It's pure hypocrisy.

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Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

#128

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The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material

What's an example of political censorship on US LLMs?

Here is an investigation of how different queries are classified as hateful vs not hateful in ChatGPT: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms

Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

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Man, the Chinese government must be a bunch of saints that you must go back 35 years to dig up something heinous that they did.

Tiananmen Square is a simple test that most people recognize.

I'm sure the model will get cold feet talking about the Hong Kong protests and uyghur persecution as well.

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The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material

That is not relevant for this discussion, if you don't think of every discussion as an east vs. west conflict discussion.

Hard to talk about what models are doing without comparing them to what other models are doing. There are only a handful of groups in the frontier model space, much less who also open source their models, so eventually some conversations are going to head in this direction.

I also think it is interesting that the models in China are censored but openly admit it, while the US has companies like xAI who try to hide their censorship and biases as being the real truth.

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