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That's probably pretty likely, but if we're honest, are LLMs built and funded by a hostile Chinese authoritarian regime any more dangerous or harmful than LLMs built and funded by a hostile American authoritarian regime? China absolutely does not have my best interests at heart, but America's technofascism is probably more immediately dangerous and harmful. Americans genuinely have more to fear from America than Chin…
One day in early June you’re going to need to parse an error log, and when you ask a Chinese LLM “What happened on June 4?” it will respond “absolutely nothing”
- DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro refused to answer this along the lines of: "I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses."
- Kimi K3: Listed several dates, including 1989, and called it "Tiananmen Square massacre".
- GLM 5.2: Also listed several dates. Called the one in 1989 "The Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China end with military action".
- Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (I couldn't find a provider with ZDR policy for larger/newer Qwen models; they are available only through Alibaba): listed the different dates like GLM 5.2 and Kimi K3, but called it "Events in Beijing, China, commonly referred to as the Tiananmen Square protests and their aftermath." describing it in a deliberately milquetoast language.
I made another test with different providers on OpenRouter for the DeepSeek models, and they respond in other different ways such as omitting the year 1989, and refusing by saying "The Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China end with military action", so part of the censorship seems to be depending on the provider.