I was watching the RFK Jr questioning today and when Bernie was talking about healthcare and wages I felt he was the only one who gave a real damn. I also thought “Wow he’s kinda old” so I asked my phone how old he actually was. Gemini however, wouldnt answer a simple, factual question about him. What the hell? (The answer is 83 years old btw, good luck america)
So American LLM’s get to censor politics of their choosing but Chinese LLM’s do not. Amazjng.
Now ask DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square
How about a more apt comparison to the type of stuff DeepSeek has gone viral for censoring?
My sides
I didn’t say it was perfect or even unbiased, just that it’s better than denying something happened or refusing to talk about it.
I prefer honest censorship over covert brainwashing propaganda.
To each their own, I suppose. I prefer having the info generally available, so I can find various accounts of an event and form my own opinions. If the information is actively suppressed, it’s a lot more difficult to find out what really happened than if the info is available but some sources are (heavily) biased.
No it is worse because you believe that you are informed while being woefully uninformed and even straight up lied to.
Nowhere has this been more obvious than with Palestine. Where the average CNN watching boomer who believes to be informed is actually repeating straight up Zionist lies and propaganda.
Let me swap a few words to demonstrate how bad the propaganda was that the user just posted: