We do agree on that, but it's weird to act as if this is somehow worse than OpenAI; try asking ChatGPT about Palestine.
Turns out our fantasies about genius AI that will make our lives better don't really work when those AIs are programmed, both intentionally and unintentionally, with human biases.
This is why I get so angry at people who think that AI will solve climate change. We know the solution to climate change, and it starts with getting rid of billionaires. But an AI controlled by billionaires is never going to be allowed to give that answer, is it?
As with all things LLM, triggering or evading the censorship depends on the questions asked and how they're phrased, but the censorship most definitely is there.
Pretty simple. Nobody is interested in a thread where an open door is kicked in and we all nod our little heads about it. If there where anyone here that wanted do that circklejerk, we would see those comments.
The censorship is external to the LLM. If you run it locally, it will answer the query.
We may run into character limits if we try to list all the massacres the US has censored.
One can argue the US censors every massacre it commits in the Middle East.
Which doesn't make China's censorship any better. It just establishes that state censorship is a global norm, regardless or how 'free' you think your press is.