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Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

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755 points MedadNewman | 1 comments | 31 Jan 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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femto ◴[31 Jan 25 21:11 UTC] No.42892058[source]▶
This bypasses the overt censorship on the web interface, but it does not bypass the second, more insidious, level of censorship that is built into the model.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825573

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859947

Apparently the model will abandon its "Chain of Thought" (CoT) for certain topics and instead produce a canned response. This effect was the subject of the article "1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek", which appeared on HN a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42858552

Edit: fix the last link

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cyanydeez[dead post] ◴[31 Jan 25 21:56 UTC] No.42892648[source]▶
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thebruce87m ◴[31 Jan 25 22:19 UTC] No.42892941[source]▶
US based models could suffer the same fate.
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axus ◴[31 Jan 25 22:34 UTC] No.42893120[source]▶
Good thing that large AI investments aren't involved with the US Government!
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1. petee ◴[31 Jan 25 22:50 UTC] No.42893274[source]▶
I'm not sure I believe that considering how all the majors immediately dropped to their knees for the Cheeto.

Trump will claim its somehow discrimination and they'll all scramble to get out of the firing line