Chinese censorship is leaking into answers from American AI

'Multi-part case study on China’s media' finds that AI models can't hallucinate away Chinese censorship

New research suggests Chinese state media and authoritarian speech restrictions can shape the answers produced by leading U.S. AI models

Chinese censorship is leaking into answers from American AI

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini unwittingly respond like China’s censored chatbots when asked sensitive questions—and researchers say companies haven’t much fixed it

‘Multi-part case study on China’s media’ finds that AI models can’t hallucinate away Chinese censorship

Regulators and researchers spent the past year warning that Chinese AI models like DeepSeek come with Beijing’s censorship baked in, but a growing body of research suggests American AI models may not be entirely immune from it. A peer-reviewed study published in Nature found evidence that Chinese…