This particular model does not appear to censor questions about the Tiananmen Square massacre or other issues typically censored by the Chinese government.
A different model from Alibaba’s Qwen family available on HuggingChat, QwQ-32B, however, clearly does when TC asked:
Alibaba’s QwQ-32B model won’t answer a question about the Tiananmen Square protests. Image Credits: Hugging Face (screenshot)
DeepSeek, another Chinese model that went viral in the AI community for its reasoning capabilities, also extensively censors topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government, TechCrunch previously reported.