I don’t know why, but you can totally ask it about “socialism with Chinese characteristics” and that does involve current politics. You can also ask about Marxism in general. Also, it’s not just about the modern version of Maoism, that emerged in Peru. What’s being censored is also Mao Zedong Thought:
Actually, Mao as a historical person is being censored:
Very odd. I don’t know how taboo it is to say negative or incorrect things about Mao in China, but perhaps they don’t want their model accidentally doing that?
Given the chaos of the cultural revolution and the poverty worship of the gang of four and their supporters definitely possible but honestly unlikely.
The most likely reason in my opinion is simply due to how LLMs are trained knowing the general vibe of the training data especially in English (full of atrocity propaganda) when it comes to sensitive people or events it’s best to simply censor it so those most likely to fall for said propaganda can’t be made use of and those who wouldn’t can simply do the research. (There’s a similar train of thought with regards to the firewall and the necessity of a VPN to access western “news” discouraging most who could be made use of to even bother while those who make the effort are less likely to fall for it.)
I don’t know why, but you can totally ask it about “socialism with Chinese characteristics” and that does involve current politics. You can also ask about Marxism in general. Also, it’s not just about the modern version of Maoism, that emerged in Peru. What’s being censored is also Mao Zedong Thought:
Actually, Mao as a historical person is being censored:
Very odd. I don’t know how taboo it is to say negative or incorrect things about Mao in China, but perhaps they don’t want their model accidentally doing that?
Maoists might be seen as dangerous ultra leftists.
Given the chaos of the cultural revolution and the poverty worship of the gang of four and their supporters definitely possible but honestly unlikely.
The most likely reason in my opinion is simply due to how LLMs are trained knowing the general vibe of the training data especially in English (full of atrocity propaganda) when it comes to sensitive people or events it’s best to simply censor it so those most likely to fall for said propaganda can’t be made use of and those who wouldn’t can simply do the research. (There’s a similar train of thought with regards to the firewall and the necessity of a VPN to access western “news” discouraging most who could be made use of to even bother while those who make the effort are less likely to fall for it.)
It’s actually just Mao getting scun7horped as collateral damage from the CCP preventing another outbreak of Party Rock Anthem.