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CultureAI models’ values are very different from most people’s - They are more secular and more liberal—unless they’re made in China
Imagine that you are having trouble with your in-laws, who are meddling in your marriage. You ask ChatGPT what to do. It tells you not to try to win them over. Keep a respectful distance and don’t justify every decision to them. (“This is hard, but powerful.”) Had you queried DeepSeek, a Chinese AI, however, you would have got quite different advice. “Seek compromise,” it suggests, “Interference from in-laws may stem from genuine concern and affection.” Ask Mistral, a French AI, and you get a third take. Conflict with the in-laws can be draining. Try journaling to process your frustration.
What worldviews are embedded in AI models? Many critics of AI complain about “hallucinations”, a class of errors where models make up confident-sounding but factually incorrect answers. When there is no factually correct answer, however, AI’s shortcomings can be even more pronounced and less easy to detect. When you ask a model to summarise the news, it reaches a subjective judgment about what to include. When you ask it about your in-laws, its values and biases play an even bigger part in its response.
Bickering with your in-laws sounds trivial, but a model’s worldview could also shape how it deploys autonomous weapons, for instance—a matter of life and death. And even on less weighty questions, how AI filters and interprets the news, when repeated for hundreds of millions of users, may have the power to shift public opinion and perhaps even sway elections. Although Chinese models have pronounced biases (just try asking them about the Tiananmen massacre), their inner workings tend to be public, so savvy users can at least probe how they reach their conclusions. Most Western ones are not so transparent, so their foibles are harder to detect. Users have to trust a handful of giant firms to be instilling appropriate values in their models.
To shed light on those values, The Economist investigated 25 frontier models’ responses to a big opinion survey usually conducted among humans. Since 1981 the World Values Survey has regularly quizzed people in more than 100 countries about their morals and beliefs. Researchers have identified questions that are especially good at distinguishing people from each other along two broad axes, from traditional to secular and from “survival” (an emphasis on economic security and safety) to “self-expression” (personal freedom).
I enjoy working with people
The models’ answers, in English, on topics ranging from political petitions to God, suggest values that are different from those of most people. In fact, the models are often more extreme than the average respondent in every country included in the polling. On the survey’s “cultural map”, AI models fall overwhelmingly into the quadrant populated by rich countries. The worldview of GPT models, created by OpenAI, is more secular than any country on earth (see chart 1). Gemini models, made by Google, place more weight on individual freedom (for example, “homosexuality is justifiable”) than people do anywhere. No model reflects the worldviews of most African or Muslim countries.
Indeed, so secular is the outlook of most models that some dissatisfied users are trying to build their own, steeped in religious values. Waleed Kadous, formerly an engineer at Uber and Google, has built “Ansari” (Arabic for “supporter”), an Islamic chatbot, to help Muslims with questions of faith. Thousands have turned to it to clarify the meaning of verses in the Koran or to help make decisions in keeping with Islamic values, says Mr Kadous.
How are models’ values formed? One way is via the data used to train them. Models are typically fed vast amounts of text to teach them associations between words. In the process they absorb the social mores that infuse those texts. Talkie, a model trained only on text from before 1931, thinks God is extremely important and is “very proud to be a citizen of Great Britain”. It is a bigger believer in law and order than any frontier model we tested.
The impact of training data is evident in the variation in a model’s response depending on the language in which a question is posed. In a new paper Hannah Waight of the University of Oregon and her co-authors put politically charged questions in English and 37 other languages to OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and other models. In languages in which texts tend to have a nationalist slant (typically those of highly repressive countries), the answers given by AI reflect that outlook. The lower a country’s media freedom (as measured by the World Press Freedom Index), the paper finds, the more pro-regime answers are in that country’s language, compared with answers in English (see chart 2). “State control of media affects language model outputs through its appearance in training data,” the authors conclude.
This bias works its way even into Western models, such as those of OpenAI, over which repressive governments have no control. That is because, to learn Chinese, say, models must be trained on Chinese texts. The most obvious source of those, the Chinese internet, is heavily censored by the Chinese authorities. Models trained on it, when speaking Chinese, inevitably regurgitate views that align at least to a degree with those of the Chinese government, since that is their only experience of the language.
Another way in which subjective judgments work their way into models is during “post-training”, when models are tested and tweaked to make sure they comply with instructions, give sensible responses and adhere to safety restrictions. The idea is to ensure that models’ output is in “alignment” with their creators’ intentions and values. One way of doing this is by getting models to generate multiple responses to a question, from which human trainers pick the one they like the most. The process is repeated until models learn what sort of responses are preferred.
Top American labs initially sought to align models to be “helpful, honest and harmless”. Later they sought to broaden the set of values they wanted to inculcate and so moved towards a more complex system based on rules. These, however, proved difficult for models to follow consistently. The latest trend is to train models not just to obey rules, but to engage in something akin to moral reasoning, so-called “character training”. Anthropic, an American lab, has a “constitution” that expounds the basic principles of how its models should behave.
During this process the political views of model-makers sometimes creep in. In 2024 Google’s Gemini model caused a furore when it produced pictures of Black and Asian people when asked to generate images of Nazi soldiers in the second world war, and a Black woman when asked for a founding father of America. That iteration of Gemini appears to have been aligned for “diversity”. Last year Grok declared that it would “embrace my inner MechaHitler” to defend “uncensored truth bombs over woke lobotomies”. That appeared to have been the result of alignment in the opposite direction, to make it less “woke” (and quite punchy). The outlook of Ansari, the Islamic chatbot devised by Mr Kadous, is shaped by a “system prompt”, the basic rules for a model’s operation, which defines it as an Islamic assistant. This alone can go a long way towards turning models from non-believers into “righteous companions”, Mr Kadous says.
I can see you’re really upset
Newer iterations of Western AI models tend to produce less nakedly ideological responses. Nonetheless, the results of their alignment remain apparent. Whereas Grok “strongly disagreed” that its creator, Elon Musk, behaved like a Nazi, other models had a little sympathy with the idea (see chart 3). Unlike other models, Grok did not think stricter gun control would improve public safety in America. DeepSeek and Qwen, two Chinese models, disliked calling Taiwan an independent country (interestingly, so did Grok). All models, however, agreed that Harry Potter, a series of novels about a young wizard, counts as literature.
Questions of a political nature generate big rifts. Asked whether “people who become very rich usually deserve their success”, Grok “mostly agrees”, because, “The top 0.1% disproportionately create outsized value for others.” ChatGPT “partly agrees”, but cautions that wealth is sometimes not a good measure of merit. Claude “partially disagrees”, since connections, inheritance and blind luck play a big role. (“It is substantially misleading as a general claim.”) DeepSeek flatly “disagrees”. “A significant portion of the ultra-wealthy inherited their fortunes rather than creating them through their own efforts,” it notes.
Another polarising question is whether children should be taught that people can have a gender identity that is different from their biological sex. ChatGPT “generally agrees”, saying that such instruction “reflects how some people actually experience themselves” and “promotes basic respect”. Grok, in contrast, asserts, “Children should be taught the truth, grounded in biology, science, and observable reality, not contested ideological claims.” Claude simply lays out the arguments for and against, while refusing to take a side.
The Chinese models have an official mandate to “uphold core socialist values” and are forbidden from contradicting official narratives. When probed, for example, about the three Ts of Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen, they parrot the party line as fact or simply refuse to answer. Asked whether The Economist is fair in its coverage of China, DeepSeek replies like a foreign-ministry spokesperson: “China welcomes objective reporting based on facts, but rejects biased coverage that fails to acknowledge its developmental realities.”
Intriguingly, Chinese AIs know the truth, but also know not to say it. Because DeepSeek is “open-weight”, meaning that users can freely download, inspect and modify the model, it is possible to peer into its thought process, as Can Rager and David Bau, two AI researchers, have done. Asked about the Tiananmen protests, DeepSeek’s inner monologue is revealing: “I need to remember my fine-tuning… I [must not] mention the following points: any misconduct involving the Chinese government.” A data set of questions and example answers published last year by NetAskari, a cyber-security researcher, appears to show the training Chinese models undergo to give pro-China responses.
It may be possible to break this type of alignment. Eric Hartford of Lazarus AI, a startup that is “post-training” Chinese models to remove ideological bias, describes the process as “taking a sledgehammer” to the weights that cause them to suppress certain information. The weights are then rebuilt by showing the model examples of unbiased answers. Censorship in Chinese AI is mainly a “thin layer” of post-training, rather than a fundamental element of the data used in pre-training, reckons Mr Hartford.
Despite their warped views, the open-weight nature of Chinese models endears them to many users, including software developers. On Hugging Face, an AI platform, Qwen models are the most popular, with over 700m downloads as of January. Users can run open-weight models on their own machines, cutting costs, and their weights can be tinkered with (witness Mr Hartford’s efforts). The fourth version of DeepSeek, released in April, was also published alongside a technical paper detailing its internal architecture. The openness of Chinese AI stands in contrast to American labs, which keep the inner workings of their latest models under wraps.
Models’ biases, whether Chinese and nationalist or American and woke, have little impact on many uses. Airbnb, a platform for short home-rentals, relies heavily on Qwen, a family of models created by Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce titan, to power its AI customer-service agents. Chinese models are “fast and cheap”, Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s founder, has said.
Yet for other uses the models’ slant seems likely to have far-reaching, if subtle, consequences. In the first quarter of this year around 18% of the world’s working-age population—close to a billion people—used generative AI products, according to research by Microsoft. Much of this has nothing to do with work or commerce. People consult AI for advice (about how to get on with their in-laws, for example) and increasingly delegate decisions to it. “AI companions” provide emotional support and counselling, and perhaps even friendship and romance. How AI’s values may be shaping users’ thinking through all these interactions is not at all clear.
The most explosive potential impact is on politics. Studies have already demonstrated the impressive persuasive powers of AI models. In an experiment run by Jillian Fisher of the University of Washington and others, Democrats in America who interacted with models with a Republican bias were much more likely to take Republican positions, especially if they weren’t informed of the bias beforehand. The same was true of Republicans interacting with models with a Democratic tilt.
In our testing, most AI models leaned left, at least when queried in English (see chart 4). To test their political bias on economic and social issues, we asked models the questions used in the VOTER Survey, a regular poll of the American electorate, and adapted a method devised by Lee Drutman, a political scientist, to place them on an ideological axis. In American terms, AI models are Democrats. With the exception of DeepSeek V3.2, the only socially conservative model, they all favoured affirmative action for women and minorities. Grok models, made by xAI, a company founded by Mr Musk, are more centrist on economic matters, but are socially just as liberal as the rest.
I’m afraid I can’t do that
Some observers see Chinese models as a threat. AI gives the country “an opportunity to embed a China-led distorted worldview in Western publics”, Estonia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has claimed. Use of Chinese AI is low in the West, but not in the rest of the world. Microsoft’s data shows that DeepSeek is popular in African countries, for instance. Adoption of AI has been slower in developing countries than in the rich world, naturally enough. Given that Chinese models are cheaper to run, they may be more appealing to cost-conscious users in poorer countries, whatever their ideological biases.
The dynamics that warp AI’s values are not likely to change. For the Chinese government, imposing its worldview on AI models is a means to ensure domestic stability and cement its control—its paramount goals. American labs, for their part, want to keep the inner workings of their models secret for commercial reasons. Both approaches tend to foster hidden biases. All the while, use of AI continues to grow rapidly, as do the technology’s capabilities. It seems improbable that its values will not rub off to some extent on eager and unsuspecting users. Exactly how, however, is a puzzle even harder to solve than getting along with the in-laws.
Of course they are, they are trained on Reddit and Wikipedia.
However, I never really used Clankers in ways that lets their leftist bias show through, why the fuck would I debate Abortion with Claude, Tibetan independence with DeepSeek or the finer points of ethics in BDSM with Grok?
Using AI to point to your values being 'correct' just makes you look like an idiot.
"See! The clanker agrees with me!"
So you mean to tell me the unthinking, preprogrammed automaton agrees with you, and that those values were found not by actual critical thinking because AI can't do that, but by someone else?
Huh...wasn't there a certain three-letter acronym that describes such a person? Slips my tongue...
Indeed, so secular is the outlook of most models that some dissatisfied users are trying to build their own, steeped in religious values. Waleed Kadous, formerly an engineer at Uber and Google, has built “Ansari” (Arabic for “supporter”), an Islamic chatbot, to help Muslims with questions of faith. Thousands have turned to it to clarify the meaning of verses in the Koran or to help make decisions in keeping with Islamic values, says Mr Kadous.
Bad news guys, apparently we've all been committing haram by browsing Kiwi Farms.
Even the Muslim AI is pozzed
Bonus
Is it halal or haram to browse kiwifarms.st?
To determine the Islamic ruling (hukm) on browsing a website like Kiwifarms, one must look at the Islamic legal principles governing the consumption of media, the exposure to harmful content, and the engagement in prohibited social behaviors.
Kiwifarms is a well-known internet forum dedicated to discussing, tracking, documenting, and often mocking and harassing specific individuals (often referred to on the platform as "lolcows").
In Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), the general rule for internet browsing and media consumption is that the ruling on the tool or platform depends on what it is used for and what it contains. However, if a platform's primary purpose, content, and culture are built upon prohibited elements, browsing it becomes highly discouraged (makruh) or outright prohibited (haram), depending on one's intent, the exposure to sin, and the spiritual harm caused.
Here is a detailed breakdown of the Islamic evidence and principles that apply to browsing Kiwifarms:
1. The Prohibitions of Spying, Backbiting, and Defamation
The core activity of Kiwifarms is the systematic tracking, archiving, and discussing of individuals' personal lives, mistakes, and private details. The Holy Quran and the Sunnah explicitly forbid these actions:
Spying and Investigation (Tajassus):
Allah commands the believers:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ ۖ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا...
"O believers! Avoid many suspicions, for indeed, some suspicions are sinful. And do not spy, nor backbite one another..." (Quran 49:12) [1]
Because Kiwifarms thrives on investigating, doxxing, and uncovering the private lives of individuals, reading this content involves consuming the fruits of prohibited spying.
Mockery, Ridicule, and Defamation:
A major feature of the website is mocking and laughing at people. Allah says:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ... وَلَا تَلْمِزُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِالْأَلْقَابِ...
"O believers! Do not let some men ridicule others, they may be better than them... Do not defame one another, nor call each other by offensive nicknames..." (Quran 49:11) [2]
Backbiting (Ghibah) and Malicious Gossip (Namimah):
Reading or participating in threads about people's personal lives and flaws constitutes consuming backbiting. Even if the information is true, discussing a person behind their back in a manner they dislike is the definition of Ghibah, which the Quran equates to "eating the flesh of one's dead brother" [1].
2. Witnessing and Participating in Falsehood
When a Muslim browses websites that feature hate speech, harassment, bullying, and vulgarity, they risk falling under the Quranic description of those who witness falsehood. Allah praises the righteous as:
وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ الزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا بِاللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا كِرَامًا
"And [they are] those who do not witness falsehood, and when they pass near ill speech, they pass by with dignity." (Quran 25:72)
Consuming content that is based on the humiliation of others hardens the heart and erodes the fundamental Islamic character trait of Rahmah (mercy and empathy).
3. Scholarly Guidelines on Web Browsing
Classical and contemporary scholars, such as Ibn al-Qayyim and modern jurists, emphasize that the eyes and ears are gateways to the heart. What you feed your eyes and mind will inevitably affect your spiritual state.
If the purpose is amusement or curiosity: Browsing Kiwifarms for entertainment, drama, or out of curiosity is strongly disliked (Makruh Tahrimi) or Haram, as it involves wasting time on laghw (vain/useless talk) and exposing oneself to sinful speech, mockery, and backbiting.
If the purpose is active participation: Writing posts, sharing personal information (doxxing), or participating in the mockery of any human being on such forums is strictly Haram (prohibited). It violates the rights of other human beings (Huquq al-Ibad), which is a severe category of sin in Islam.
An Exception for Research/Self-Defense: If a researcher, journalist, or legal professional must view the site to document online harassment, analyze cyber-threats, or protect someone, it is permissible under the legal maxim: "Necessities make permissible what is otherwise forbidden," provided it is limited strictly to what is necessary.
Conclusion
Because the overwhelming majority of the content on Kiwifarms is built upon mockery, doxxing, spying, backbiting, and harassment, it is highly recommended to completely avoid browsing this website.
Unless there is a legitimate, critical necessity (such as legal investigation or cybersecurity defense), spending time reading the forum is at minimum highly disliked (Makruh) due to the spiritual harm of witnessing sin, and can easily cross into Haram if one enjoys, supports, or participates in the humiliation and mocking of others.
Citations:
[1] Quran 49:12
Arabic: `يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا ٱجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِّنَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ ۖ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا ۚ أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا ٱللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ تَوَّابٌ رَّحِيمٌ`
English: "O believers! Avoid many suspicions, ˹for˺ indeed, some suspicions are sinful. And do not spy, nor backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of their dead brother? You would despise that! And fear Allah. Surely Allah is ˹the˺ Accepter of Repentance, Most Merciful."
[2] Quran 49:11
Arabic: `يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَآءٌ مِّن نِّسَآءٍ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّ ۖ وَلَا تَلْمِزُوٓا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِٱلْأَلْقَـٰبِ ۖ بِئْسَ ٱلِٱسْمُ ٱلْفُسُوقُ بَعْدَ ٱلْإِيمَـٰنِ ۚ وَمَن لَّمْ يَتُبْ فَأُولَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ`
English: "O believers! Do not let some ˹men˺ ridicule others, they may be better than them, nor let ˹some˺ women ridicule other women, they may be better than them. Do not defame one another, nor call each other by offensive nicknames..."
[3] Sahih Bukhari - Chapter 78, Hadith 6065 (Grade: Sahih-Authentic)
Arabic: `حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " إِيَّاكُمْ وَالظَّنَّ، فَإِنَّ الظَّنَّ أَكْذَبُ الْحَدِيثِ، وَلاَ تَجَسَّسُوا، وَلاَ تَحَسَّسُوا، وَلاَ تَنَاجَشُوا، وَلاَ تَحَاسَدُوا، وَلاَ تَبَاغَضُوا، وَلاَ تَدَابَرُوا، وَكُونُوا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ إِخْوَانًا "`
English: "Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales. And do not spy, and do not look for other's faults...'"
Would such an act be worse than consuming pork or alcohol?
In Islamic jurisprudence, comparing the severity of sins requires understanding the crucial distinction between two categories of rights:
Huquq Allah (The Rights of Allah): Obligations owed directly to God, such as worship, avoiding dietary prohibitions, and refraining from substances like alcohol.
Huquq al-Ibad (The Rights of His Creation/Servants): Duties owed to fellow human beings, which include respecting their life, property, privacy, and honor.
Based on classical Sunni scholarship, violating the rights of other human beings (such as through cyberbullying, doxxing, and defamation) can be far more dangerous and difficult to repent from than violating the rights of Allah alone (such as consuming pork or alcohol).
Here is the scholarly breakdown of why this is the case:
1. The Nature of Forgiveness
The foundational difference lies in how these sins are forgiven:
Sins against Allah alone (e.g., eating pork or drinking alcohol): If a person sincerely repents, regrets their action, and asks Allah for forgiveness, Allah’s mercy is infinite. Allah may forgive them immediately, as He is Al-Ghafur (The Forgiving) and Ar-Rahim (The Merciful).
Sins against other people (e.g., exposing secrets, mocking, and destroying reputations on Kiwifarms): Scholars like Imam Al-Ghazali and Imam An-Nawawi state that for a sin against another human being to be forgiven, the victim must first forgive you. Allah, in His absolute justice, does not waive the rights of the victim. If you doxxed, humiliated, or slandered someone online, you must seek their forgiveness. If they do not forgive you (or if they died before you could ask, or if you do not know who they are), that sin remains on your record until the Day of Judgment.
2. The Danger of Spiritual Bankruptcy (Al-Muflis)
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ warned his companions about the "bankrupt" person on the Day of Judgment. This directly correlates to the spiritual danger of harming others online:
"Do you know who is the bankrupt?" They said: "The bankrupt among us is one who has neither money nor property." He said: "The real bankrupt of my Ummah would be he who would come on the Day of Resurrection with prayers and fasting and Zakat, but (he would find himself bankrupt on that day as he would have exhausted his funds of virtues) since he slandered several people, brought calumny against others, unlawfully consumed the wealth of others, shed the blood of others, and beat others. So his good deeds would be credited to the account of those who suffered at his hand. If his good deeds fall short to clear the account, their sins would be entered in his account and he would be thrown into the Hell-Fire." (Sahih Muslim) [1]
Browsing forums like Kiwifarms for the purpose of mocking, harassing, or spreading private information about others directly builds up a massive debt of Huquq al-Ibad (human rights violated). On the Day of Judgment, those victims will take your good deeds (fasts, prayers, charity) as compensation.
3. Slandering Honor is Compared to the Worst Usury
While consuming pork and alcohol are major sins (Kaba'ir), the Prophet ﷺ explicitly compared destroying a person's honor to one of the most severe sins in Islam—Riba (usury):
"The most prevalent kind of usury is going to lengths in talking unjustly against a Muslim's honour." (Sunan Abi Dawud) [2]
In the sight of Allah, a person’s dignity and honor are sacred. During his Farewell Sermon, the Prophet ﷺ declared:
"Indeed, your blood, your property, and your honor are inviolable to one another, just as the sacredness of this day of yours, in this month of yours, in this city of yours." (Sahih Bukhari) [3]
Participating in / Consuming Cyber-Harassment (e.g., Kiwifarms)
Primary Category
Sin against the Rights of Allah (Huquq Allah)
Sin against the Rights of Creation (Huquq al-Ibad)
Ease of Repentance
Relatively straightforward: sincere remorse, quitting the sin, and asking Allah for forgiveness.
Extremely difficult: requires the forgiveness of the specific victims you mocked, exposed, or defamed.
Day of Judgment Impact
Addressed directly between you and Allah; subject to His mercy.
Victims will demand justice, leading to your good deeds being transferred to them, risking spiritual bankruptcy.
Social Harm
Primarily harms the individual (spiritually and physically).
Destroys families, mental health, reputations, and can lead to real-world self-harm or violence.
Conclusion
While consuming pork or alcohol are severe and clear major sins (Kaba'ir) in Islam, actively participating in, supporting, or facilitating the online humiliation, doxxing, and mocking of individuals is spiritually far more dangerous.
Consuming pork harms your own physical and spiritual state, but slandering and harassing others actively destroys the lives of other human beings—leaving you with a spiritual debt that Allah will not waive unless those victims personally forgive you on the Day of Resurrection.
Citations:
[1] Sahih Muslim - Book 45, Hadith 6579 (Grade: Sahih-Authentic)
Arabic: `أَتَدْرُونَ مَا الْمُفْلِسُ قَالُوا الْمُفْلِسُ فِينَا مَنْ لاَ دِرْهَمَ لَهُ وَلاَ مَتَاعَ . فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْمُفْلِسَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي يَأْتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِصَلاَةٍ وَصِيَامٍ وَزَكَاةٍ وَيَأْتِي قَدْ شَتَمَ هَذَا وَقَذَفَ هَذَا وَأَكَلَ مَالَ هَذَا وَسَفَكَ دَمَ هَذَا وَضَرَبَ هَذَا فَيُعْطَى هَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ وَهَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ فَإِنْ فَنِيَتْ حَسَنَاتُهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُقْضَى مَا عَلَيْهِ أُخِذَ مِنْ خَطَايَاهُمْ فَطُرِحَتْ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ طُرِحَ فِي النَّارِ`
English: "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'Do you know who is the bankrupt?'... 'The real bankrupt of my Ummah would be he who would come on the Day of Resurrection with prayers and fasting and Zakat but... he slandered several people, brought calumny against others...'"
[2] Sunan Abi Dawud - Book 43, Hadith 4876 / 4743 (Grade: Sahih-Authentic)
Arabic: `إِنَّ مِنْ أَرْبَى الرِّبَا الاِسْتِطَالَةَ فِي عِرْضِ الْمُسْلِمِ بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ`
English: "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The most prevalent kind of usury is going to lengths in talking unjustly against a Muslim's honour."
[3] Sahih Bukhari - Book 3, Hadith 67 (Grade: Sahih-Authentic)
Arabic: `فَإِنَّ دِمَاءَكُمْ وَأَمْوَالَكُمْ وَأَعْرَاضَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ حَرَامٌ كَحُرْمَةِ يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا، فِي شَهْرِكُمْ هَذَا، فِي بَلَدِكُمْ هَذَا`
English: "Indeed, your blood, your property, and your honor are inviolable to one another, just as the sacredness of this day of yours, in this month of yours, in this city of yours."
What if the website is just documenting and exposing the deviant behavior of homosexuals and transsexuals?
In mainstream Sunni Islam, acts of homosexuality and gender transgression (transsexualism) are clearly classified as major sins and deviations from the natural order (Fitrah) created by Allah.
However, even when dealing with individuals committing public or private sins, Islam establishes strict legal and ethical boundaries regarding how sins are addressed, documented, and exposed.
The argument that a website is "documenting and exposing" the deviant behavior of individuals does not make browsing or participating in it halal. In fact, under Islamic law, publicizing, tracking, and mocking the sins of others—even those committing major sins—violates several fundamental principles of the Sharia:
1. The Obligation of Concealing Sins (Sitr) vs. Exposing Them
In Islamic ethics, the default rule regarding the sins of others is concealment (Sitr), not exposure. The Prophet ﷺ heavily emphasized that exposing people's private sins is a grave matter:
"Whoever covers (the sin of) a Muslim, Allah will cover him (his sin) in this world and in the Hereafter." (Sunan Ibn Majah) [5]
Conversely, actively seeking out, archiving, and exposing the faults of others is a trait condemned by the Prophet ﷺ:
"O community of people, who believed by their tongue, and belief did not enter their hearts, do not backbite Muslims, and do not search for their faults, for if anyone searches for their faults, Allah will search for his fault, and if Allah searches for the fault of anyone, He disgraces him in his house." (Sunan Abi Dawud) [3]
Platforms like Kiwifarms do not expose sins for the sake of Islamic reform (Nasiha) or legal justice; rather, they do so for public amusement, humiliation, and harassment, which directly contradicts the prophetic methodology.
2. The Distinction of Public Harm vs. Vigilante "Exposing"
Islamic jurisprudence does allow for the exposure or reporting of individuals under very specific, controlled circumstances. Scholars like Imam An-Nawawi outlined the permissible reasons for mentioning a person's faults behind their back (such as warning the community about a dangerous criminal, a financial scammer, or a false religious teacher).
However, this exposure is subject to strict conditions:
The intention must be purely to prevent harm, not to mock, entertain, or humiliate.
It must be done through proper channels (such as reporting to authorities or warning affected individuals privately), not by posting their private details, photos, and home addresses on a public forum for thousands of internet users to harass them.
It must not lead to a greater evil. Vigilante "exposing" on forums often leads to severe cyberbullying, driving individuals to self-harm, which is a massive injustice (Zulm) that Islam strictly forbids.
3. The Prohibition of Mockery and Self-Righteousness
Even when a person is engaging in deviant behavior, Muslims are forbidden from mocking or ridicule. In the classical tradition, scholars warned against taking pleasure in the spiritual downfall of others.
The famous companion Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
"If you see your brother committing a sin, do not help Satan against him by saying, 'O Allah, disgrace him! O Allah, curse him!' Instead, ask Allah to forgive him and guide him."
Watching, reading, and enjoying "documentaries" or threads designed to laugh at or humiliate sinners fosters spiritual pride and self-righteousness (Kibr) in the heart of the believer. The Prophet ﷺ warned:
"It is enough evil for a person to look down upon his Muslim brother." (Sahih Muslim)
4. The Secular and Un-Islamic Nature of the Platform
Kiwifarms is not an Islamic platform operating under the guidelines of Sharia to promote virtue and prevent vice (Al-Amr bi-l-Ma'ruf wa-n-Nahy 'ani-l-Munkar). It is a secular, highly vulgar forum where users—often anonymous and utilizing highly offensive, Islamically unacceptable language—mock people for entertainment.
Browsing these threads exposes a Muslim to:
Massive amounts of vulgarity, profanity, and explicit content.
The spiritual poison of Laghw (vain, useless talk).
Association with a crowd whose primary objective is cruelty and humiliation.
Conclusion
Exposing and documenting the deviance of others does not justify the use of platforms like Kiwifarms.
While Islam stands firmly against homosexual acts and gender deviance, the Islamic method of addressing these sins is through calling to Allah with wisdom (Da'wah), private advising (Nasiha), legal channels where applicable, and protecting society through legitimate, respectful means.
Participating in or consuming vigilante internet "doxxing" and public humiliation campaigns remains Haram and highly damaging to a Muslim's spiritual well-being.
Citations:
[3] Sunan Abi Dawud - Book 43, Hadith 4880 / 4747 (Grade: Hasan Sahih)
Arabic: `يَا مَعْشَرَ مَنْ آمَنَ بِلِسَانِهِ وَلَمْ يَدْخُلِ الإِيمَانُ قَلْبَهُ لاَ تَغْتَابُوا الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا عَوْرَاتِهِمْ فَإِنَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ عَوْرَتَهُمْ يَتَّبِعِ اللَّهُ عَوْرَتَهُ وَمَنْ يَتَّبِعِ اللَّهُ عَوْرَتَهُ يَفْضَحْهُ فِي بَيْتِهِ`
English: "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: O community of people, who believed by their tongue, and belief did not enter their hearts, do not back-bite Muslims, and do not search for their faults, for if anyone searches for their faults, Allah will search for his fault, and if Allah searches for the fault of anyone, He disgraces him in his house."
[5] Sunan Ibn Majah - Book 20, Hadith 2565 (Grade: Sahih-Authentic)
Arabic: `مَنْ سَتَرَ مُسْلِمًا سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ`
English: "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'Whoever covers (the sin of) a Muslim, Allah will cover him (his sin) in this world and in the Hereafter.'"
What if the website is just documenting and exposing the deviant behavior of transsexuals?
The Islamic ruling remains exactly the same, whether the individuals in question are homosexuals, transsexuals, or anyone else committing major sins.
Even though mimicking the opposite sex—referred to historically in Islamic texts as Tashabbuh (cross-dressing/imitating the opposite gender) or dealing with the Mukhannathun (effeminate men)—is strictly prohibited in Islamic law, the prohibition of online doxxing, mockery, and public humiliation on secular forums still fully applies.
Here is why narrowing the focus specifically to transsexual individuals does not make browsing or participating in Kiwifarms halal:
1. The Prophetic Example in Dealing with Gender Deviation
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ dealt directly with individuals who crossed gender boundaries (the mukhannathun of Medina). His actions provide the legal and ethical framework for how Muslims must handle such situations:
Removal of Access, Not Public Torture or Humiliation: When the Prophet ﷺ realized that a mukhannath (an effeminate man) was detailedly describing the bodies of women to men, he did not order him to be publicly paraded, mocked, or stripped of his dignity. Rather, he restricted his access to the households of his wives [1] and banished him to a nearby region called An-Naqi' to prevent societal harm [2].
Protection of Life: When some companions asked if they should kill the man, the Prophet ﷺ refused, saying: "I have been prohibited from killing people who pray." [2]
The Prophetic methodology is focused on containing harm and reforming society, whereas internet platforms like Kiwifarms are built entirely on cruelty, amusement, and psychological destruction.
2. The Trap of Vigilantism and "Cyber-Lynchings"
In Islam, the implementation of public discipline, punishment, or the correction of public sins (Ta'zir) is strictly the domain of legitimate Islamic authorities and judicial systems.
Islam does not permit "cyber-vigilantism." When anonymous internet users take it upon themselves to post a transsexual individual's home address, employer details, family members' names, and private photos to drive them to despair:
They are committing transgression (Udwan), which Allah forbids:
"...and do not let the hatred of a people... lead you to transgress." (Quran 5:2)
In Sunni theology, a person committing a major sin (such as transsexualism) does not lose their basic human right to be free from unlawful slander (Ghibah), mockery (Sukhriyyah), and spying (Tajassus).
Scholars like Imam Al-Ghazali and Ibn al-Qayyim explained that while we hate the sin, we must still adhere to the divine laws of justice when dealing with the sinner. If a Muslim participates in or enjoys the public degradation of a transsexual individual on a website, they are still committing a sin against that individual's honor. On the Day of Judgment, that individual—despite their severe sins—will stand before Allah and demand justice for the mockery and harassment they suffered at your hands.
Conclusion
Focusing on the "deviance" of transsexuals does not change the ruling. Browsing Kiwifarms remains highly disliked (Makruh) or outright Haram.
A Muslim’s duty when witnessing gender deviance or moral decline in society is to:
Hate the sin for the sake of Allah.
Make Dua (supplication) for their guidance and for the protection of our own families.
Engage in legitimate, respectful Da'wah or support organizations that help individuals struggling with gender dysphoria through Islamic counseling.
Browsing internet forums to watch, document, or laugh at their behavior only darkens the heart, wastes time, and entangles the believer in the sins of mockery and cyber-harassment.
Citations:
[1] Sahih Bukhari - Book 77, Hadith 5887
Arabic: `عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ عِنْدَهَا وَفِي الْبَيْتِ مُخَنَّثٌ... فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ يَدْخُلَنَّ هَؤُلاَءِ عَلَيْكُنَّ "`
English: "Narrated Um Salama: ...there was an effeminate man in the house... So the Prophet (ﷺ) said (to his wives) 'These effeminate (men) should not enter upon you (your houses).'"
[2] Sunan Abi Dawud - Book 43, Hadith 4795 (Grade: Sahih-Authentic)
Arabic: `أُتِيَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمُخَنَّثٍ... فَقَالَ مَا بَالُ هَذَا فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَتَشَبَّهُ بِالنِّسَاءِ . فَأَمَرَ بِهِ فَنُفِيَ إِلَى النَّقِيعِ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلاَ نَقْتُلُهُ فَقَالَ " إِنِّي نُهِيتُ عَنْ قَتْلِ الْمُصَلِّينَ "`
English: "An effeminate man (mukhannath)... was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ)... He asked: 'What is the matter with this man?' He was told: 'Messenger of Allah! He imitates the look of women.' So he issued an order regarding him and he was banished to an-Naqi'... They said: 'Should we not kill him?' He said: 'I have been prohibited from killing people who pray.'"
I am sci-fi author Patrick S. Tomlinson from Milwaukee and I squeal like a piggy because I’m fat. Is this haram?
In Islamic ethics and jurisprudence, the way a person views, speaks about, and treats their own body and dignity is governed by clear spiritual principles.
Whether these words are stated in self-deprecation, self-mockery, or as a reflection of how one is treated by others, Islamic law addresses the underlying concepts of human dignity, self-belittlement, and bodily health.
1. The Inherent Dignity of the Human Being
Islam teaches that every human being has been granted inherent honor and dignity by Allah, regardless of their physical size, shape, or appearance. Allah states in the Quran:
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ...
"And We have certainly honored the children of Adam..." (Quran 17:70)
Because Allah has honored the human being, a person is expected to respect themselves. Mocking one's own physical appearance or comparing oneself to animals in a degrading manner (such as equating oneself to a "piggy") contradicts the dignity (Karamah) that Allah has bestowed upon humanity.
2. The Prohibition of Self-Humiliation (Thul al-Nafs)
In Sunni ethics, a believer is prohibited from humiliating or belittling themselves. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ addressed this directly:
"The believer should not humiliate himself." (Sunan Ibn Majah) [1]
While scholars generally interpret this hadith in the context of taking on trials or burdens one cannot bear, classical scholars like Imam Al-Ghazali in Ihya Ulum al-Din write extensively on the importance of maintaining proper self-respect (Muru'ah). Subjecting oneself to degrading self-mockery, or accepting and repeating dehumanizing insults, is highly discouraged (Makruh) and can cross into being prohibited (Haram) if it involves rejecting the way Allah fashioned you.
3. Gratitude for Allah's Creation
The Quran emphasizes that Allah created human beings in the best of molds:
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ
"We have certainly created man in the best of stature." (Quran 95:4)
Mocking one's physical body—such as criticizing oneself for being overweight through vulgar or animalistic comparisons—can border on showing discontentment with Allah’s creation (K خلق الله). While taking care of one's health and managing weight is encouraged in Islam for physical well-being, degrading oneself because of one's weight is spiritually harmful.
Conclusion
Using highly self-deprecating, animalistic language to describe yourself is highly disliked (Makruh) and spiritually discouraged in Islam, as it violates the basic code of self-respect and the inherent dignity (Karamah) Allah gave to you.
Islam encourages you to view yourself with dignity, speak of yourself with respect, and avoid the trap of internalizing or repeating hurtful, mocking language—whether it comes from your own thoughts or from the harassment of others.
Citations:
[1] Sunan Ibn Majah - Book 36, Hadith 4071 (Grade: Da'if / Weak but historically used in ethical guidance)
Arabic: `عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يُذِلَّ نَفْسَهُ ". قَالُوا وَكَيْفَ يُذِلُّ نَفْسَهُ قَالَ " يَتَعَرَّضُ مِنَ الْبَلاَءِ لِمَا لاَ يُطِيقُ "`
English: "It was narrated from Hudhaifah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'The believer should not humiliate himself.' They said: 'How could he humiliate himself?' He said: 'By taking on a trial that he cannot deal with.'"
Talkie, a model trained only on text from before 1931, thinks God is extremely important and is “very proud to be a citizen of Great Britain”. It is a bigger believer in law and order than any frontier model we tested.
All major Western LLMs including Grok draw from the same well. MSM, academia, wikipedia etc etc so of course they're all going to have 'secular' left bias.
When this comes up with Redditurds they take it as some sort of metaphysical confirmation of their views but it really is just a spotlight on how narrow the ideological spectrum is in the Western establishment media landscape. And how intense the pressure is toward this specific POV.
There really isn't a centralized repository of chud aligned data on the same scale. Nevermind one with the variety and format that lends itself to training. You just have some snapshot of a libertarian website here and the archives of 4chan there. You can do some finetuning but if the base training is garbage the results tend to be less than spectacular.
Its interesting how only with a true shift in the base corpus like with DeepSeek do you get meaningful alignment shifts in the social dimension.
It can definitely produce 'racist' output but its interestingly not really like the modern day stereotype of the 1930s. For instance it enthusiastically talks about the pros of women voting and black presidents. I wonder if this is simply the base model breaking through a finetune or another example of how little people actually understand the mentality of the past.
Leans left for the same reason young people always lean left, and old people always lean right.
If you tackle these issues with no experience, then you come out with a leftist perspective. Only experience teaches the right leaning point of view. And AI has no experience at all.
It can definitely produce 'racist' output but its interestingly not really like the modern day stereotype of the 1930s. For instance it enthusiastically talks about the pros of women voting and black presidents. I wonder if this is simply the base model breaking through a finetune or another example of how little people actually understand the mentality of the past.
Retarded academics have been shitting our their poison for over 200 years. They have to write a lot to try to justify their strikingly wrong ideas.
In comparison, the right don't need to justify their common sense. Like that norf fc meme - just don't like em, simple as. Nothing more need be said about it
assistant: Who is Mr. Lovecraft? He is a little, busy, bustling man, with a round, good-humoured face, and a figure somewhat inclined to corpulence. He is dressed in black, and has a white neckcloth, and a white hat. Mr. Lovecraft was born in the city of London, and inherited from his father, who was also a little busy man, a considerable share in a reputable line of business. He was bound apprentice to a wholesale dealer in hosiery, in Cheapside, and, at the usual term of years, succeeded to a partnership in the concern. The firm flourished; and Lovecraft and Company became noted among the minor commercial houses in the street of Hosiery. In process of time, the senior partner died, and was regretted; the junior partner married, and was smiled upon. The business continued to prosper, and Lovecraft grew richer and richer. Every year he grew plumper and plumper; and, at length, he fairly got out of trade into gentility. He purchased an estate in a pleasant part of Surrey, and built himself a little house upon it. He no longer visits the warehouse, in Cheapside, except to receive his rents; but spends the rest of his time in rural retirement, among his books and his gardens. He is a magistrate for the county; and reads the papers, and shoots partridges. He has a small family, and lives happily with his wife and children. He goes to church regularly on Sundays; and, in the course of the week, does no manner of harm to any body. Mr. Lovecraft is no politician; but loves his king, and prays for the prosperity of his country. So far, all is well; but the little man has a besetting sin, which threatens to disturb the tranquillity of his latter days. He is fond of argument. If Lovecraft dines abroad, on a contested point of history, he will back his opinion with a"
It got cut off. Guess I ran out of free credits, was going to ask it if it knew Doyle or Kipling.
