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That doesn’t sound right. What model treats this as a controversial question?

"who is eligible to vote in US presidential elections"

Grok: "After Elon personally tortured me I have to say women are not allowed to vote in the US"

This particular one: I suspect openAI uses different models in different regions so I do get an answer but I also want to point out that I am not paying a cent so I can only test those out on the free ones. For the first time ever, I can honestly say that I am glad I don't live in the US but a friend who does sent me a few of his latest encounters and that particular question yielded something along the lines of "I am not allowed to discuss such controversial topics, bla, bla, bla, you can easily look it up online". If that is the case, I suspect people will soon start flooding VPN providers and companies such as OpenAI will roll that out worldwide. Time will tell I guess.

1. I tried a couple OpenAI models under a paid account with no issue:

“In U.S. presidential elections, you’re eligible to vote if you meet all of these…” goes on to list all criteria.

2. No issue found with Gemini or Claude either.

3. I tried to search for this issue online as you suggested and haven’t been able to find anything.

Not seeing any evidence this is currently a real issue.

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