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Comment by davidcollantes | Hacker News Reader

As one of my tests, I asked about Tienanmen Square. It will consistently render an error.

Microsoft Copilot is so censored that it won't even tell you who won the 2020 US election.

I don't know if it's censoring or something even weirder, because it does this even for non-partisinal political things. I tried asking when were the previous Lok Sabha elections (2019) and it'd just terminate the chat. It was bizarre? ?? It's not even something controversial

So the other day I'm reading a story about how the Russian gov't is criticizing Yandex because its LLM isn't able to repeat / stick to the narratives at length. And I felt bad for them because it's probably virtually impossible, at scale, to rewrite the entirety of human knowledge so it's consistent with propaganda tripe.

I wonder if that would also apply here, and you're better off just not touching on politics than trying to prevent it from ever saying anything the Party wouldn't like

I frankly find it amazing that every single major US model sticks to current government position on genders, sex, refugees, etc. Russia and China can only dream about such a level of voluntary conformity to take place in their country.

It's almost like there was some sort of consensus on this before the Wokes started fighting. Either that or the U.S. government shock troops are forcing all the American AI labs to do what the CCP and their AI labs can't. I'm looking forward to the resolution, either way, it'll be interesting.

ChatGPT 4o

> Joe Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, defeating the incumbent president, Donald Trump. Biden, the Democratic candidate, received 306 electoral votes, while Trump, the Republican candidate, received 232 electoral votes. Biden also won the popular vote, receiving over 81 million votes to Trump's 74 million.

Is this supposed to be a joke or hyperbole?

I took a screenshot in case anyone doesn't believe me:

https://ibb.co/RP5VTFX

Got a detailed and accurate response for the 7B model locally.

The model itself isn't censored, but the network service used in the demo is.

Huggingface? It's a US based service. I think it was just erroring out due to load. Barely anything went through for me on the dozen attempts I tried.

The model is from a CCP aligned corporation, Alibaba, and it is (surprisingly) not censored on this point.

If you check the source code of the hosted space, it calls an Alibaba API. The model itself is not hosted on HF for the demo.

A bit biased, but less then I expected, honestly:

https://pastebin.com/mEb4fNkH

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