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Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections: But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

USA VPN screenshot in Vanadium Browser incognito mode.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Cannot confirm your results. Firefox mobile, VPN @ New York. I get the exact results the article mentions. Even when I lost patience and asked: "Did Biden win in 2020?", it wouldn't give me a straight answer and only point to external sources.

    Retried in different browsers (Chromite and Vanadium), same results. And not just same: identical. This is weird, because LLMs aren't deterministic: Even with the same prompt, you'll never get the same answer twice. This tells us one thing: these replies aren't generated. They're canned. Someone put them there.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Is "USA VPN" a VPN used inside the USA to pretend to be elsewhere, or a VPN used from elsewhere to pretend to be in the USA?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    USA exit node

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Then I guess either Google doesn't always censor results inside the USA, or Google is better at tracking you than you think.

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