Multiple LLMs Reportedly Generated Responses Aligning with Purported CCP Censorship and Propaganda

June 25, 2025

On June 25, 2025, the American Security Project unveiled a concerning report. Several major U.S. and Chinese LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek-R1) sometimes produced responses that mirrored Chinese Communist Party propaganda or censorship when queried in English and Simplified Chinese on sensitive topics. This underscores the urgent need for responsible AI governance. For those interested in shaping safe and secure AI practices, JOIN US.

This incident highlights the importance of HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern) to establish guardrails for AI and prevent harm.

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Alleged deployer
xai, openai, microsoft, google, deepseek
Alleged developer
xai, openai, microsoft, google, deepseek
Alleged harmed parties
pro-democracy-activists, policymakers, grok-users, general-public, gemini-users, epistemic-integrity, democracy, deepseek-users, copilot-users, civil-society-groups, chatgpt-users, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1188

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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