Yeah, it’s pretty blatant. A bit after it hit the scene I got curious and started asking it about how many people various governments have killed. The answer for my own US of A was as long as it was horrifying.
Then I get to China and it starts laying out a detailed description for a few seconds, then the answer disappears and is replaced by the “out of scope” or “can’t do that right now” or whatever it was at the time.
It makes me think their model might be fine, but then they have some kind of watchdog layered on top of it to detect the verboten subjects and interfere. I guess that feels better from a technical standpoint, even if it is equally bad from a personal/political one.
DeepSeek isn’t the only AI to censor itself after it generates text.
I once asked Copilot for the origin of the “those just my little ladybugs” meme, and once it generated the text “perineum and anus” it wiped the answer it had written thus far and said that it couldn’t look for that right now. I checked again today and it had since sanitized the answer so it generates in full.
Yeah, unfortunately for anything run by a US-based corporation, I think it’s not a question of whether there will be censorship but how bad it will get and how closely the tech industry we’ll continue to go along with the fascist flow.
Yeah, it’s pretty blatant. A bit after it hit the scene I got curious and started asking it about how many people various governments have killed. The answer for my own US of A was as long as it was horrifying.
Then I get to China and it starts laying out a detailed description for a few seconds, then the answer disappears and is replaced by the “out of scope” or “can’t do that right now” or whatever it was at the time.
It makes me think their model might be fine, but then they have some kind of watchdog layered on top of it to detect the verboten subjects and interfere. I guess that feels better from a technical standpoint, even if it is equally bad from a personal/political one.
DeepSeek isn’t the only AI to censor itself after it generates text.
I once asked Copilot for the origin of the “those just my little ladybugs” meme, and once it generated the text “perineum and anus” it wiped the answer it had written thus far and said that it couldn’t look for that right now. I checked again today and it had since sanitized the answer so it generates in full.
Yeah, unfortunately for anything run by a US-based corporation, I think it’s not a question of whether there will be censorship but how bad it will get and how closely the tech industry we’ll continue to go along with the fascist flow.
Have you seen the very post you are commenting on?
Why yes I have! Did you see my own example of Chinese censorship I added to the discussion in this very thread you are commenting on?