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Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex by femto on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:53PM (#42892619)
Promptfoo, the authors of the "1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek" article, anticipated this question and have promised:

"In the next post, we'll conduct the same evaluation on American foundation models and compare how Chinese and American models handle politically sensitive topics from both countries."

"Next up: 1,156 prompts censored by ChatGPT "

I imagine it will appear on HN.

Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex by teeth-gnasher on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:59PM (#42892679)
There’s something of a conflict of interest when members of a culture self-evaluate their own cultural heresies. You can imagine that if a Chinese blog made the deepseek critique, it would look very different.

It would be far more interesting to get the opposite party’s perspective.

Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex by femto on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:14PM (#42892882)
"Independent" is more important than "opposite". I don't know that promptfoo would be overtly biased. Granted they might have unconscious bias or sensitivities about offending paying customers. I do note that they present all their evidence with methods and an invitation for others to replicate or extend their results, which would go someway towards countering bias. I wouldn't trust the neutrality of someone under the influence of the CCP over promptfoo.
Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex by teeth-gnasher on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:17PM (#42894612)
We’ll see soon enough, no use debating now. But I’d put money on them not showing any examples that might get them caught up in a media frenzy regarding whether they’re x-ist or anti-x-ic or anything of the sort, regardless of what the underlying ground truth in their specific questions might be.

You’ll note even on this platform, generally regarded as open and pseudo-anonymous, only a single relevant example has been put forward.

Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex by cscurmudgeon on Friday January 31, 2025 @09:51PM (#42895179)
Somethings never change. Reminds me of this joke from Regan:

Two men, an American and a Russian were arguing. One said,

“in my country I can go to the white house walk to the president's office and pound the desk and say "Mr president! I don't like how you're running things in this country!"

"I can do that too!"

"Really?"

"Yes! I can go to the Kremlin, walk into the general secretary's office and pound the desk and say, Mr. secretary, I don't like how Reagan is running his country!"

Re:Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex by jaakl on Sunday February 02, 2025 @02:36PM (#42911100)
Not funny anymore, after 1/20/2025