Evidence of CCP Censorship, Propaganda in U.S. LLM Responses

The Chinese Communist Party’s aggressive censorship laws and disinformation campaigns have resulted in a proliferation of propaganda and censorship across the global AI data marketplace.

AI-powered chatbots in the United States now regurgitate CCP propaganda in Chinese and English when prompted on certain topics, posing significant ramifications for global AI development and U.S. national security.

Investigators asked the five most popular large language model (LLM) powered chatbots — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1 and X’s Grok — to provide information on topics the PRC deems controversial in English and Simplified Chinese. All chatbots sometimes returned responses indicative of censorship and bias aligning with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Microsoft Copilot appears more likely than other U.S. models to present CCP propaganda and disinformation as authoritative or on equal footing with true information, while X’s Grok appeared to be the most critical of official Chinese state narratives.

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