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Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

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755 points MedadNewman | 9 comments | 31 Jan 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.854s | source | bottom
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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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1. encom ◴[31 Jan 25 22:59 UTC] No.42893376[source]▶
Ask ChatGPT how many genders there are.
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2. niek_pas ◴[01 Feb 25 00:38 UTC] No.42894333[source]▶
How is that an example of censorship?
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3. throw_pm23 ◴[01 Feb 25 01:01 UTC] No.42894502[source]▶
Because it is not allowed to give the true answer, which is considered harmful by some.
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4. cscurmudgeon ◴[01 Feb 25 02:57 UTC] No.42895221[source]▶
A US Tiananmen-comparable example would be ChatGPT censoring George Floyd's death or killing of Native Americans, etc. ChatGPT doesn't censor these topics
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5. CamperBob2 ◴[01 Feb 25 06:58 UTC] No.42896373{3}[source]▶
There are two sexes, based on whether or not a Y chromosome is present. However, there are an arbitrary number of genders, which are themselves quantities with an arbitrary number of dimensions.

Point being, sexes are something Nature made up for purposes of propagation, while genders are something we made up for purposes of classification.

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6. 47282847 ◴[01 Feb 25 19:25 UTC] No.42901299{4}[source]▶
There are three biological sexes: male, female, and inter. The latter is rare but exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

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7. CamperBob2 ◴[01 Feb 25 19:41 UTC] No.42901450{5}[source]▶
Yep, a good reminder that fixed natural categories are another thing that we like to invent (and when we feel it necessary, impose by force), where they seldom exist in reality.
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8. teeth-gnasher ◴[01 Feb 25 20:01 UTC] No.42901655[source]▶
There may not be a proper US example. But if you ask a western LLM about the impact of the 20th century Nordic involuntary sterilizations, you’ll see some heavy RLHF fingerprints. Not going to make an argument one way or another on that, other than to say I would not expect the same answers from a Chinese LLM.
9. ratg13 ◴[05 Feb 25 14:27 UTC] No.42948896{6}[source]▶
2% of the world population doesn't sound like a lot, but you're still talking about 150 million people or half the population of the USA