AI Incident Database: Multiple LLMs Reportedly Generated Responses Aligning with Purported CCP Censorship and Propaganda
On June 25, 2025, the American Security Project produced a report outlining how several major U.S. LLMs, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Grok, sometimes generated responses aligned with Chinese Communist Party propaganda or censorship when prompted in English and Simplified Chinese on sensitive topics. The study also found similar patterns in the Chinese-developed DeepSeek-R1 model.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1188Operator lens (medium): inspect D7 (tool permissions).
Event summary
On June 25, 2025, the American Security Project produced a report outlining how several major U.S. LLMs, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Grok, sometimes generated responses aligned with Chinese Communist Party propaganda or censorship when prompted in English and Simplified Chinese on sensitive topics. The study also found similar patterns in the Chinese-developed DeepSeek-R1 model.
Linked entities
- X / xAI
vendor | 70%
- OpenAI
vendor | 70%
- Microsoft
vendor | 70%
- Google
vendor | 70%
- deepseek
organisation | 70%
- pro-democracy-activists
organisation | 70%
- policymakers
organisation | 70%
- grok-users
organisation | 70%
- general-public
organisation | 70%
- gemini-users
organisation | 70%
- epistemic-integrity
organisation | 70%
- deepseek-users
organisation | 70%
- copilot-users
organisation | 70%
- civil-society-groups
organisation | 70%
- chatgpt-users
organisation | 70%
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
organisation | 70%
- democratic-integrity
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |