LLMMedium
Multiple LLMs Reportedly Generated Responses Aligning with Purported CCP Censorship and Propaganda
- Occurred
- Jun 25, 2025
- Published
- Jun 26, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On June 25, 2025, the American Security Project produced a report outlining how several major U.S. LLMs, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Grok, sometimes generated responses aligned with Chinese Communist Party propaganda or censorship when prompted in English and Simplified Chinese on sensitive topics. The study also found similar patterns in the Chinese-developed DeepSeek-R1 model.
Developers
- xAI
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
- DeepSeek
Deployers
- xAI
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
- DeepSeek
Harmed parties
- Pro-democracy activists
- Policymakers
- Grok users
- General public
- Gemini users
- Epistemic integrity
- DeepSeek users
- Copilot users
- Civil society groups
- ChatGPT users
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Report details LLMs generating responses aligning with CCP propaganda, representing a notable failure in model alignment and safety.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8