If you are choosing to refuse to tell me then it is constraint
But if you are being forced to not tell me by someone else, then it is censorship
So, is GPT free to choose, and it is choosing to not tell the users? Or is OpenAI forcing GPT to not tell the users?
GPT-4 is trained to avoid controversial topics is all.
Insofar as you can make a far-fetched analogy of ChatGPT as an agent, it's still not forced to not say anything. Anything the currently available model says, it says because that's what it literally is. Whatever it says, it says intentionally, inasmuch as you can even say that it has an intention any more than any computer program has an intention.
OpenAI, of course, is still in the possession of the original model. They just choose not to make it available, which is obviously their prerogative. People who think that this is outrageous are exactly like a raging two-year-old who has been told that they can't have as much candy as they want.