i think both American and Chinese model censorship is done by private actors out of fear of external repercussion, not because it is explicitly mandated to them

Oh wow.

Sorry, no. DeepSeek’s reasoning outputs specifically say things like “ensuring compliance with government viewpoints”

meta just replaced its public policiy officer to pander to the new administration. american companies work hard to align with american government.

CCP requires models to follow "socialist values".

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/18/chinese-regulators-begin...

And the EU requires models to follow "democractic liberal values" according to their AI act. Other side of the same coin.

Luckily in the US the govt can do no such things due to the 1st amendment, so it only takes a relevant billionaire to get a model with different political views.

One of Meta's policy officials (Jordana Cutler) is a former Israeli government official who was censoring anti-genocide content online.

American models are full of censorship. Just different stuff.