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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: 0.334s | 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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