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Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

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755 points MedadNewman | 3 comments | 31 Jan 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.767s | source
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teeth-gnasher ◴[31 Jan 25 20:33 UTC] No.42891613[source]▶
I have to wonder what “true, but x-ist” heresies^ western models will only say in b64. Is there a Chinese form where everyone’s laughing about circumventing the censorship regimes of the west?

^ https://paulgraham.com/heresy.html

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chris12321 ◴[31 Jan 25 20:49 UTC] No.42891800[source]▶
ChatGPT won't tell you how to do anything illegal, for example, it won't tell you how to make drugs.
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1. teeth-gnasher ◴[31 Jan 25 20:59 UTC] No.42891900[source]▶
Sure, but I wouldn’t expect deepseek to either. And if any model did, I’d damn sure not bet my life on it not hallucinating. Either way, that’s not heresy.
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2. riskable ◴[31 Jan 25 21:31 UTC] No.42892335[source]▶
> I’d damn sure not bet my life on it not hallucinating.

One would think that if you asked it to help you make drugs you'd want hallucination as an outcome.

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3. lukan ◴[31 Jan 25 23:27 UTC] No.42893671[source]▶
Very funny.

But no. Only a very, very small percentage of drug users want hallucinations.

Hallucinations happen usually, when something went bad.

(So a hallucinating LLM giving drug advice might as well result in real hallucination of the user, but also a permanent kidney damage)