I’m not so sure that an inappropriate content filter would have the desired PR effect. I think you’d need something a bit more complicated… like a filter which triggers a mechanism to produce a sanitized CoT. Otherwise the conspicuous absence of CoT on certain types of questions would make a clear pattern that would draw attention and potentially negative press and negative user feedback. That intermittently missing CoT would feel like a frustrating sort of censorship to some users.
I’m not so sure that an inappropriate content filter would have the desired PR effect. I think you’d need something a bit more complicated… like a filter which triggers a mechanism to produce a sanitized CoT. Otherwise the conspicuous absence of CoT on certain types of questions would make a clear pattern that would draw attention and potentially negative press and negative user feedback. That intermittently missing CoT would feel like a frustrating sort of censorship to some users.