I got a little curious about local LLM hosting I’ll admit, and was playing with a few models to look for obvious censorship etc.
I’ve tended to make some assumptions about Deepseek due to its country of origin, and I thought I’d check that out in particular.
Turns out that Winnie the Pooh thing is jut not happening.
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I dunno why people are always asking “AI” about a politician on the other side of the planet. There are plenty of questions to be asked the states/capital that we’re under. I guess that’s how the indoctrination system works tho. People are so constantly bombarded with attacks on “official enemies”, while they can’t even think about a question to ask about their own oppressors.
Deepseek is from China, and rumored to be controlled by their government. So I wanted to see if it could say that very controversial phrase from a few years ago. It could not. Data point achieved, no further editorializing (nor queries regarding Chairman Xi or other far away politicians) required.
They were asking Deepseek, an LLM model developed in China, because they were curious what limits might be baked into it by its makers. I imagine that if they were testing an American made AI, they would instead ask it about things an American company would be likely to censor.
In the case of DeepSeek, because of this:
Ask grok about Elmo. Ask lama about lizard man. Ask any American LLM about the cheeto with a red cap. These are valid questions in a democratic and free country and even then we see bias, weight tampering and algorithmic manipulation to apease the developer overlords. It would be supprising if deepseek has no preesure from the CCP when China has no free media or speech on any other online platform.