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DeepSeek's model is censored at both the application and training layers, a Wired investigation shows.

There’s an idea floating around that DeepSeek’s well-documented censorship only exists at its application layer but goes away if you run it locally (that means downloading its AI model to your computer).

But DeepSeek’s censorship is baked-in, according to a Wired investigation which found that the model is censored on both the application and training levels.

For example, a locally run version of DeepSeek revealed to Wired thanks to its reasoning feature that it should “avoid mentioning” events like the Cultural Revolution and focus only on the “positive” aspects of the Chinese Communist Party.

A quick check by TechCrunch of a locally run version of DeepSeek available via Groq also showed clear censorship: DeepSeek happily answered a question about the Kent State shootings in the U.S., but replied “I cannot answer” when asked about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

    • Breve@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      11 小时前

      Hosted versions of the model can do additional screening of the input and output of the model, so running the model locally would be “less” censored because of that. OpenAI has been shown to be doing the same, so also “censorship”.

      The irony is that LLMs are trained to follow instructions and lack critical reasoning, so even these multiple layers of screening still fail if you can trick it.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 小时前

      It’s more like, running it locally gives you the possibility of altering it to be uncensored. But you either have to know how, or someone would have to put a package together.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      10 小时前

      Because the majority of people talking about deepseek lately don’t know the first thing about LLMs lol