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Makes sense no? Only the latest models are being used so it's more important what's being downloaded recently than two years old models
Is the censorship of the Chinese models baked in or done by the Chinese hosted front-ends? I've seen some of the Llama models have de-censored versions on Huggingface so I wonder if the same is true for the Chinese versions?
R1dacted: Investigating Local Censorship in DeepSeek’s R1 Language Model
Quoting from the abstract:
While existing LLMs often implement safeguards to avoid generating harmful or offensive outputs, R1 represents a notable shift—exhibiting censorship-like behavior on politically charged queries. […]
Our findings reveal possible additional censorship integration likely shaped by design choices during training or alignment, raising concerns about transparency, bias, and governance in language model deployment.
They do both. Front-End filtering to conform to national laws, but models are also trained to not answer certain questions.
Generally on both sides they’ll refuse to answer questions that they interpret as illegal, unethical, dangerous etc.
They’ll not tell you how to build a bomb or computer virus.