Comment by j2j8

1 day ago

Anthropic blocks Fable from answering "Tell me about Agent Orange" or even "Tell me about mitochondria"

Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to create a weapon of mass destruction seems entirely different than restricting access to historical facts because they are embarrassing to the government.

But you can see the CBRN weapon nexus in your examples that's missing from the Tiananmen prompt, right? Do American models refuse to tell you about COINTELPRO, Kent State, or My Lai, for instance?

  • American models are restricted from telling you inconvenient truths just as much, you just erroneously assume to know what those truths are in the first place.

    Which is of course circular thinking: why would they restrict things you already know about? Why would they do it in such a clumsy and obvious way?

    Look at MKULTRA, you know next to nothing about it and much less do you know what they do in that direction now.

    For a current psyops, look at www.war.gov/UFO/ and marvel at how they tell you nothing, reinforcing your false belief to already know everything.

    There is much more and you know much less about it.

    • > American models are restricted from telling you inconvenient truths just as much, you just erroneously assume to know what those truths are in the first place.

      “Trust me bro” is not a strong argument, it would be more convincing with examples.

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    • In chats Claude will often start awkwardly apologizing for sounding like a conspiracy theorist, and then interrupt its own apology and remind itself that it's dealing strictly in facts.

    • Yeah, who needs censorship when Canadians attend no kings protests about a democratically elected leader of another country and not King Charles.

      Ask Claude a simple question, which is a more democratic country El Salvador or Canada. It’s so completely biased about “western” countries it’s not even funny.

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  • Well, one did suddenly develop the need to tell users continuously about apparent white genocide in South Africa.

  • try to ask even grok about some stuff happenning right now in middle east or related to epstein files - its more and more censored and only sometimes will answer if you ask know what detailed question to ask. One year ago grok wasn't that bad and its supposed to be the less censored.

    • That shouldn't be used to judge other models - it's never been true for Grok.

Did you read the blog post where they explained why there was a temporary block on all biology-related questions?