Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

Part of the blog is hypothesizing that the censorship is in a separate filtering stage rather than the model itself. But, the example of hex encoding doesn't prove or disprove that at all, does it? Can't you just check on a version running open-source weights?

I ran the distilled models locally some of the censorships are there.

But on their chat (hosted), deepseek has some keyword based filters - like the moment it generates Chinese president name or other controversial keywords - the "thinking" stops abruptly!