looks like the same approach used to censor different things right? openai censors zittrain because he wants the right to be forgotten and openai doesn't want legal trouble, deepseek censors tiananmen because, well, they don't want to go to prison / disappear. from a tech perspective they don't seem very different

What does the approach matter? OpenAI censors for civil legal reasons. Deepseek censors because of government restrictions on speech.

I agree with you. I thought this subthread was about "hey thats funny the censorship UX is similar (and similarly weird/clunky) between chatgpt and deepseek, whaddayaknow". That the content of what they censor is different is kinda outside the scope (and I agree that depending on an AI that has CCP censorship rules built-in sounds like a bad plan)