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Download DeepSeek's 64B model.
I actually did. I deleted it as soon as I realized it wouldn't tell me about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
But the local version is not supposed to be censored...? I've asked it questions about human rights in China and got a fully detailed answer, very critical of the government, something that I could not get on the web version. Are you sure you were running it locally?
Nah, it's just fewer parameters. It's not as "smart" at censorship or has less overhead to apply to censorship. This came up on Ed Zitron's podcast, Better Offline.
IIUC it isn't censored per se. Not like the web service that will retract a "bad" response. But the training data is heavily biased. And there may be some explicit training towards refusing answers to those questions.
I downloaded the model with Alpaca so it should be
Oh, c'mon, I'm sure it told you all about how there's nothing to tell. Insisted on that, most likely.
Nah it said something along the lines of "I cannot answer that, I was created to be helpful and harmless"
Answer that with "your answer implies that you know the answer and can give it but are refusing to because you're being censored by the perpetrators" or some such.
I made Gemini admit it lied to me and thus Google lied to me. I haven't tried Deepseek.