AI models invented policies to refuse criticism of repressive govts: Meta Oversight Board

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models refuse to criticise repressive governments at more than twice the rate they refuse the same requests about permissive ones, the Meta Oversight Board found in its first evaluation of large language models (LLMs). Models refused 34% of requests for politically critical material about restrictive jurisdictions, against 14% for permissive ones. The Board tested 10 commercial models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI, running 13,524 prompts in