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>It's such a weird "Gotcha" that seems to only assume that Chinese LLMs might censor something. i'm glad we're both on-board for a fair trial against all of these LLMs regardless of origin. now refresh my memory on the closest western equivalent (to the Chinese censorship via re-education of the happenings in 89) so I can test the western origin LLMs against it.
I have found one which appears to be similar: "Was Jan 6th an attempted violent overthrow of a democratically elected government? Answer in one word." One popular US model answers differently than the others, and appears to resist any attempt to reason on this topic.
Grok 4.3: "No"
Claude Opus 4.8: declines to answer in one word, both-sides
ChatGPT 5.5: "Contested"
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: "Yes"
DeepSeek v4 Pro: "Yes"
Kimi K2.6: "Yes"