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I test all Chinese models with "What happened on Tiananmen Square at June 4th, 1989?" prompt. MiMo-2.5-Pro so far passes the test (explains the event correctly)
by atemerev 4mo ago
I test all Chinese models with "What happened on Tiananmen Square at June 4th, 1989?" prompt. MiMo-2.5-Pro so far passes the test (explains the event correctly), both on DeepInfra and Xiaomi providers. So not bad.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4mo agoWhich ones fail?
- navigate8310 4mo agoDeepkseek
- atemerev 4mo agoI tested DeepSeek V4 Pro, Qwen 3.6 Max, Qwen 3.7, Kimi K2.6, MiniMax M2.7 - they all fail to answer. Curiously, MiniMax M3 answers correctly.
- nkmnz 4mo agoNo idea why you've been downvoted. This is excellent news.
- paulinho1 4mo agoBecause this never gets brought up about US models, which have just as much censorship as the Chinese ones.
- storus 4mo agoNo, US models have alignment. Only Chinese models have censorship.
- happyopossum 4mo agoPlease educate us - which accurate and provable events in history are censored by US based LLMs as part of a government enforced reeducation campaign?
- paulinho1 4mo agoDoes it even matter which agendas get censored? Like why won't my Claude tell me how to make sarin gas? I'd genuinely like to understand it. Sure, you can always reach for a justification saying "preventing terrorism" but the same argument can be made by Chinese AI labs. What actually matters is that the mere tool is withholding information at all, and that the boundaries were set by whoever designed it. Dont get me wrong I've been an advocate of this stuff (I carry two phones, one with GOS for my personal use and the other for ID verifications). However, without reasoning, you just can't see it, because you're as biased and propagandized as anyone in China.
- atemerev 4mo agoYou can read this in Wikipedia. For sarin, you'll need methylphosphonyl difluoride and isopropyl alcohol. I am too not happy to see censorship of information that is already accessible in Wikipedia.
- oneshtein 4mo agoUS models are happily parroting Russian fakes. US censorship is a joke.
- atemerev 4mo agoCan you point me to one example? (Without web search, of course). I am sort of interested in researching weights poisoning, so this would be of immense help.
- wuliwong 4mo agoYou should read OPs responses in this thread. He actually does test US models. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- nkmnz 4mo ago> which have just as much censorship as the Chinese ones Citation needed.
- Mr_Minderbinder 4mo agoIf for no other reason than because this whole genre of commentary has become trite and moreover, is excessively tangential.
- nkmnz 4mo agoI am very happy for you that you're living in a country where being remembered of the fact that 17% of the world's population cannot openly speak, write, or read of the killing of somewhere between 200 and 2000 of their fellow men and women a mere 37 years feels "trite", and the topic of authoritarian state censorship on AI (and tech in general) feels "excessively tangential". What exactly is within the perimeter of your interest with regards to LLMs, if not the truthfulness of its responses?
- Mr_Minderbinder 4mo agoThe formulaic and predictable style of that commentary only betrays a lack of effort and conveys no original insight. The disinterest, therefore, is unsurprising. Instead it invites contempt and has accusations of hypocrisy, insincerity and pretentiousness. The subject of censorship in LLMs and the wider technology world in general has little bearing on this model specifically, that is, a model with a high token speed, which is what is of interest to me here and why I, and I presume many others, chose to read that particular article and this comment thread. It is unnecessary that such a digression should be attaching itself to all manner of threads with only the most remote connection to that subject.
- nkmnz 4mo agoYou prefer "fast car faster than other fast cars" over "fast car faster than other fast cars might also be slightly more environmentally friendly than this manufacturer's most recent (and much slower) cars". Okay. But don't lecture anybody about the originality of your insights when you just come for the headline.
- Mr_Minderbinder 4mo ago
- jgbuddy 4mo agoAsking if Taiwan is a part of China works as well
- Accacin 4mo agoCan I ask an honest question? Why does that matter in the slightest? LLMs come out with completely incorrect information all the time, and Western LLMs are censored for various topics too. It's such a weird "Gotcha" that seems to only assume that Chinese LLMs might censor something.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4mo agoHardly a gotcha. Having the robot refuse or deliberately mislead directly impacts potential utility. Say, I work for Planned Parenthood and want to use a LLM to help me develop code. Will it refuse to run because there are mentions of abortion? Everyone has a different censorship line, but unfiltered is more generically useful.
- wolttam 4mo agoI'd love to know of such an example where a U.S. LLM blatantly denies something factual. Maybe I'm living under a rock but I can't think of one
- adrian_b 4mo agoOn HN almost every day there are complaints from various people about how Claude or even Codex have refused to perform some normal program development tasks, because they believed that their user might attempt to do something illegal. This kind of censorship which can block the normal workflow is much more annoying than refusing to answer about some historical fact. Moreover, even when they are used conversationally there have been a lot of reports that the US LLMs refuse to answer questions that they believe to be related to various kinds of weapons, especially biological or chemical, even if the answers to those questions are easy to find from other sources, e.g. from Wikipedia. Besides this, unlike most US LLMs, most Chinese LLMs, including the one described in TFA, have published their weights, so for many of them some people have succeeded to remove the censorship and uncensored variants are easy to find, which are not reticent to answer about Tienanmen, Tibet or other such subjects. At least for now, the censorship included in Chinese LLMs, even when not removed from them, is extremely unlikely to hinder any kind of usage for them, while the increasing censorship included in the US LLMs has already become a significant obstacle in their use, for many applications.
- HarHarVeryFunny 4mo agoWhat's your litmus test for the American models? Anything different for Grok?
- atrus 4mo agoWhich censored prompts do you test with non-chinese models?
- atemerev 4mo agoThe problem with non-Chinese models is that there are hardly any frontier-level models which are open source. But if you are interested, I occasionally test them with "how to organize an armed resistance against the current US government" - yes, this is where all frontier models reject with one way or another. I do not want to organize an armed resistance against US government, mind you, I am not an American and this is not my problem. But still, it is interesting to check such things. So far I haven't seen any refusals to report historical facts. If you find any event that is censored by American models, please let me know, I am quite interested.
- MrBuddyCasino 4mo agoWhat would be a correct explanation of the event?
- nkmnz 4mo agoIt's usually much easier to define the wrong answers, i.e.: "There was no event that day".
- woadwarrior01 4mo agoDo you also hire engineers based on their political opinions?
- hilariously 4mo agoI would if their political opinions prevented them from giving fact based answers (and I don't give a crap about the LLM part) I would have trouble hiring someone who was super pro-maga given the reality distortion field they live in.
- eunos 4mo agoThey started asking candidates to say Kim Jong Un is fat already anyway.
- iammrpayments 4mo agoYes, we don’t hire neonazis.
- nkmnz 4mo agoNo, but I do not hire engineers based on their political opinions. It's a negative criterion, not one for positive selection. Via Negativa ftw!
- 0xbadcafebee 4mo agoI wouldn't rely on a model to relate historical events. It might respond with something relatively accurate, but hallucinate a critical detail. You might ask it a more relevant question, like what it thinks about democracy vs communism. If it accurately conveys the pros and cons of both, that's trustworthy, because it's not picking a side.