Giacomo Savarese
This raises an important question: Do Chinese AIs carry a different worldview?
China is a non-WEIRD country and its LLMs have advanced rapidly: models like DeepSeek and QWen now reach global audiences. Their spread has geopolitical implications, especially given China’s approach to information governance. Upon release, DeepSeek drew attention for avoiding references to the Tiananmen protests, a reminder of Chinese censorship norms. Researchers later confirmed that DeepSeek delivered highly official-sounding answers when sensitive geopolitical topics were raised, sometimes phrased in a style resembling Chinese government statements. These patterns were especially visible in Mandarin and on politically charged questions such as protest participation.
Nevertheless, other analyses found an unexpected nuance: DeepSeek frequently adopted socially liberal positions in areas without a defined official narrative, behaving similarly to Western models on issues such as immigration, human rights, and individual freedoms. This suggests a mixed ideological profile shaped by training data but constrained by political guardrails.
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