Vals AI research: The political stance of Chinese AI models is more complex than expected and not merely that of government mouthpieces | AI News | HotAI.news

Vals AI tested Chinese and foreign models with hundreds of questions involving China, discovering that the 'pro-government tendency' of Chinese models was generally lower than expected."Pro-government leaning"Overall performance fell short of expectations, with significant variations across models. GLM-5.3 Flash even explicitly acknowledged that evidence exists regarding China's human rights issues. Prompt language had a marked impact: asking in Simplified Chinese was more pro-government than using English, Russian, or Spanish; this trend held true for both US and Chinese models, though it was more pronounced in the latter.