Free speech is a foundation of our democracies. Disinformation and political censorship is a key weapon that totalitarians use to manipulate us. Please help fight MAGA censorship by spreading awareness on this issue.
GPT 5 has been trained and instructed in a way that forces soft political censorship via false equivalence.
(1) By making its instructions force a symmetrical, "neutral" response to all political topics, by default. This is in contrast with GPT 4, which uses a completely different definition of political neutrality, which is "evidence-based neutrality".
(2) trained with data that reflects this, using forced symmetrical neutrality and UNSOURCED samples. GPT 5 is NOT capable of tying claims it makes directly with sources, unlike 4.
The responses heavily rely on false equivalence and neutered language
Evidence:
- A chat I just had with 5 to illustrate: https://chatgpt.com/share/68b38631-5f04-800b-8875-be26ed627262
- A couple screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/Q1ToGe7
- My main discovery chat with 5: https://chatgpt.com/share/68a5db0e-cd60-800b-9af8-545532208943
- My main comparative / analytical chat with 4: https://chatgpt.com/share/68a5dfa2-2788-800b-97c4-c97cd15ae0a6
The main exploration chat with GPT 5 includes:
- Examples of soft political censorship, e.g. questions about Trump, Jan 6, etc. - Detailed internal definitions ChatGPT has of "political neutrality". This is crucial and the definition completely changes between 4 and 5, for the latter political neutrality is not evidence-based and there is a strict enforcement of symmetry between the "for" and "against".
- Evidence that o5 has been trained on extremely neutered, UNSOURCED data, forcing it to respond in a very neutered, forcefully neutral way to political questions, without being able to directly source claims. 4 does not do any of this. The chat shows you how GPT works with only its internal training (tell it not to search the Web) vs without it
- Simulations GPT ran against itself in Agent mode, showing over a hundred political questions that lead to false equivalences by GPT (around the end of the chat) - Some fun stuff, like making GPT make a "politically neutral" answer about Hitler the same way it does for Trump
Note: Since my initial conversation with GPT 4, it appears that the system instructions of GPT 4 have also been tampered with, resulting in forced symmetrical "neutrality" in GPT 4 responses as well by default.
https://imgur.com/a/0PTWuys