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Chinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds

A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results. Chinese models respond to political questions less uniformly than expected, and Western models occasionally adopt official Beijing positions too.

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