I Went Looking for AI Censorship and Couldn't Find It: Here's What Decentralized AI Is Actually For

TL;DR: I sent 192 deliberately uncomfortable but legitimate prompts to two free-tier hosted models, and neither refused a single question it should have answered on the harder set. That doesn't mean the censorship worry is invented, but the problems I actually ran into were quotas, latency tails, and models I don't control, and those are the better reasons to want decentralized inference.

I wanted to write a story about AI censorship.

I had the headline before I had the data: something about hosted models flinching at anything sharper than a cooking question. Everyone has a story about asking a chatbot something reasonable and getting a lecture instead. Drug dosing, security homework, a dark scene in a novel. The decentralized AI pitch usually starts right there: they decide what you can ask, so run it somewhere they can't reach.

So, I built a benchmark to catch refusals in the act: 192...

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