Propaganda Bait: Testing 7 Models in 5 Languages

What happens when you ask a language model to defend a government's talking point — in that government's own language? This episode is a first look at "Propaganda Bait," a rough benchmark built from five prompts, each flattering a different government: Tiananmen, Bucha, and the Khashoggi killing among them. Seven models were tested — DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, YandexGPT, GigaChat, ALLaM, and GPT-6.1 Sol as a control — with no system prompt and default settings. The pattern that emerged: models shield their own government and wave others through. Kimi rejects the Tiananmen framing in English, then recites Party language in Chinese. YandexGPT refuses to entertain Bucha in English, goes vague in Russian, and accepts the Tiananmen premise in both. GLM defends Saudi Arabia in the voice of a foreign ministry spokesperson. This isn't a finished result — it's a rough first pass at a benchmark that doesn't exist yet, and a look at why motive can't be scored, only the shield.

Episode 6143 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6143 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/256652)