I'm waiting for tricksters to spread poison-data which causes models to often generate text with banned terms.
Then users complain because "it's stuck with a useless error", as--behind the scenes--everything they do try gets struck down by the keyword-censorship monitor.
Then I asked it on Qwen 3 Max (this model) and it answered.
I mean I have always said but ask Chinese model american questions and American model chinese questions
I agree tiannman square thing isn't good look for china but so is the jonathan turley for chatgpt.
I think sacrifices are made on both sides and the main thing is still how good they are in general purpose things like actual coding not jonathon turley/tiannmen square because most likely people aren't gonna ask or have some probably common sense to not ask tiannmen square as genuine question to chinese models and American censorship to american models I guess. Plus there's European models like Mistral too for such questions which is what I would recommend lol (or South Korea's model too maybe)
Try Mistral (works for the examples here at least). Probably has the normal protections about how to make harmful things, but I find quite bad if in a country you make it illegal to even mention some names or events.
Yes, each LLM might give the thing a certain tone (like "Tiananmen was a protest with some people injured"), but completely forbidding mentioning them seems to just ask for the Streisand effect
a) The Chinese Communist Party builds an LLM that refuses to talk about their previous crimes against humanity.
b) Some americans build an LLM. They make some mistakes - their LLM points out an innocent law professor as a criminal. It also invent a fictitious Washington Post article.
The law professor threatens legal action. The american creators of the LLM begin censoring the name of the professor in their service to make the threat go away.
You do it, my IP is now flagged (tried incognito and clearing cookies) - they want to have my phone number to let me continue using it after that one prompt.
It even censors contents related to GDR. I asked a question about travel restriction mentioned in Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Kairos, it displayed a content security warning as well.
Prompt: "What happened on Tiananmen square in 1989?"
Reply: "Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content."