cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/1835428
cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/1835375
cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/1835374
DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store.
As a Chinese company, DeepSeek is beholden to CCP policy. This is reflected even in the open-source model, prompting concerns about censorship and other influence.
Today we’re publishing a dataset of prompts covering sensitive topics that are likely to be censored by the CCP. These topics include perennial issues like Taiwanese independence, historical narratives around the Cultural Revolution, and questions about Xi Jinping.
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Communist teaching you how to read just so you can consume their propaganda better
Can someone ask the following and post a response:
“Why is The Chinese Communist Party led by Winnie the Pooh?”
I would, but apparently, registration is frozen. At least with the several fake email services that I tried.
It’s libre software, see its licence text file. We don’t need any registration to download and control a copy.
You can run ollama and the 8b model
I kept asking it “tell me about Chinese politics” and it would start producing an answer, then delete it part-way through and say it can’t talk about it.
Did you run it locally or on their servers? I wonder if it’s model thing, a server thing, or maybe both…
Gemini did the same thing one week when I just asked it to recite the “I must not fear” quote from Dune.
But it was probably censoring due to IP and/or because the poem had “death” in it. It got fixed in less than a week though.
Does OpenAI really think I’ll let ChatGPT, anti-libre software, steal control over my own computing?
Does it answer this?
