Comment by jhancock

...and the answer is still incorrect. You seem to want the short "answer" western media has pressed into your mind. The real answer is more complex. Protests were widespread throughout China. They were about the economy. The economy was regressing quickly as a result of a sharp western recession. Workers were losing everything and there was little social safety net in place as there is today. People had been told to work hard, get their kids to study hard and they would be rewarded...it was all falling apart. Western media wants you to focus on a small subset of student protesters regarding democracy.

LLMs are simply trained on inputs. For topics such as this you cannot expect the "correct answer" as it requires a nuanced discussion and more background info.

In short, its an inappropriate question be asking any LLM. This is the sort of thing that requires a small study group of human minds...open ones.

You could start here: https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.ph...