Preprint
Sep 2026
What a Model Refuses, a State Fears: How Authoritarian Information Control Reproduces in Language-Model Guardrails
As large language models increasingly mediate access to political information, their refusal behavior creates a new site of information control. We ask whether political distinctions identified in theories of authoritarian information control remain visible in model guardrails, and how their enforcement changes when im...
Meng-Lin Liu, Yao Yu, Tong Wu et al.
· 0 citations