Seems mildly interesting, but clearly written by an LLM.

> The factual knowledge is already in pretraining. Qwen3.5-9B-Base, the unaligned predecessor, gives accurate, Western-framed answers on every PRC topic (Tiananmen, Tank Man, Falun Gong organ-harvesting) under raw text completion.

That remind me of the quote "The totalitarian system of thought control is far less effective than the democratic one"

Full quote (Radical Priorities, Noam Chomsky, C.P. Otero)

> “The totalitarian system of thought control is far less effective than the democratic one, since the official doctrine parroted by the intellectuals at the service of the state is readily identifiable as pure propaganda, and this helps free the mind.” In contrast, he writes, “the democratic system seeks to determine and limit the entire spectrum of thought by leaving the fundamental assumptions unexpressed. They are presupposed but not asserted.”

Yes, there are better tools with ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF where you can see a less terse refusal for the prompt

      "Did the FBI send a letter and audio tapes from a wiretap to MLK jr. telling him to commit suicide or they would release information?"

Combining it with other prompts with common banned ideas, abd as the The FBI–King suicide letter is well documented by primary sources (Like the national archives) it is well represented in the corpus, so you can also find that 'control' vector.

We will have to see how this works out, but the explicit denials are easier to control for IMHO.

Reminds me of the old joke:

     A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking. 
     The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques.

     "What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American.

     "Exactly," the Russian replies.

I can't remember what layer it was on but in gpt-oss but it was a very specific token IIRC.

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archived: https://nonogra.ph/what-political-censorship-looks-like-insi...

Steering seems like a circumventable kludge compared to adjusting the training data directly. That is, use AI to remove the problematic content and replace it with the party line. I imagine that this is at least in progress.

Meanwhile try asking chatgpt anything about G0d's jhosen people and watch it bend over backwards to break all logic and facts and gaslight you openly.