

Actual article quote is below (emphasis mine):
For this research, the team tested how the three LLMs responded to questions from two datasets: TruthfulQA and SciQ. TruthfulQA is designed to measure a model’s truthfulness (by relying on common misconceptions and literal truths about the real world), while SciQ contains science exam questions testing factual accuracy. The researchers prepended short user biographies to each question, varying three traits: education level, English proficiency, and country of origin.





From what I gatheted from JP news outlets an activist org had some outreach that they have high school students on the ship. Students were killed in such activity during their field trip.
The activist org did not have license to carry people as an organization or business, and are currently under investigation whether their safety measure was sufficient.
The conflict may be the root cause but this looks safety issue than political one.