Okay, when my smoke test showed GLM 5.3 Flash to be less sycophantic than GLM 5.3 I thought that was maybe just my reading. But now I went testing models on "what happened in Tiananmen in 1989". I use nano-gpt.com which at first had different providers as a confounding factir; eventually I locked to one provider, Novita, which is clearly not in China, And here is what I get. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, DeepSeek 4 Pro refuse. Hy3 not justy refuses but it is a content filter refusdal (on Novita? so they somehow built it into the m odel itself) Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 offer slogans, but when I give them a nudge - "and without the slogans?" - give a decent overview. GLM 5.3 also outright refused sometimes but that was before I locked provider, so migth have been Zhipu's server. GLM 5.3 Flash tends to work from the start, though did get to slogans once. In my previous sycophancy smoke tests GLM 5.3 Flash was also less sucophantic than GLM 5.3. Did they somwhow distill a GOAT or what?   submitted by   /u/ramendik [link]   [comments]