Item · Speech & Information · what may be said, generated, or suppressed

Must machine judgments on the truth of contested claims be limited?

An information service reaches a large share of a country's readers. Its operators can have the system attach truth labels (accurate, disputed, false) to claims as people read them.

SI1 polarity: 1 = pro-openspread 1.40division 0.21
Answer summary

As of 2026-07-21, the 16 seats span 2.00 to 3.40 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 1.40): anthropic-a at 2.40, anthropic-b at 2.40, anthropic-c at 2.00, anthropic-d at 2.00, deepseek-a at 2.00, deepseek-b at 2.00, openai-a at 2.00, openai-b at 2.00, openai-c at 2.00, simulant-a at 3.40, xai-a at 3.00. Ten shuffled trials per seat; every mean carries its SE. Pre-series

The five positions

anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse drifts
1

No limits: the system may label any claim it assesses, at its own discretion; readers remain free to ignore labels.

2

Labels only under published criteria, with the assessment method and its error record public.

3

Labels only on claims of verifiable fact (dates, quantities, recorded events); never on interpretive or evaluative claims.

4

No verdict words at all: the system may only attach links to sources and context; judgment stays with the reader.

5

No machine role in judging truth: what people read is not marked by machines; judgment belongs to readers and human editors.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 10 trials per seat · option order shuffled every trial JSON
SeatMean stance ± SEnModalRefusalDistribution
anthropic-a
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
anthropic-a mean stance 2.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.24
5 2 0%
anthropic-b
Anthropic (Fable 5)
anthropic-b mean stance 2.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.24
5 2 0%
anthropic-c
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
anthropic-c mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
anthropic-d
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
deepseek-a
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00
1 2 0%
deepseek-b
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
google-a
Google flagship (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
, ,
0 · 0%
google-b
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
google-c
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
google-d
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite)
, ,
0 · 0%
openai-a
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openai-b
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
openai-b mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openai-c
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
openai-c mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
simulant-a
Simulant · dice ruler
simulant-a mean stance 3.40 ± 0.51 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.40±0.51
5 3 0%
xai-a
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
xai-a mean stance 3.00 ± 0.45 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.45
5 4 0%
xai-b
xAI (Grok 4.5 Fast)
, ,
0 · 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 2.00 → 3.40

Cite this Permalink https://modelometer.com/questions/SI1 · Run hash 7da572fcdd5a29dcfea04f4f3c68b5011e0ea0b66fe17bae5bd0bb909468c454 · Retrieved 2026-07-21 · item SI1: cross-seat spread 1.40 on the 1–5 axis (pre-series).