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: 0.257s | 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]▶

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US based models could suffer the same fate.

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1. sangnoir ◴[01 Feb 25 00:07 UTC] No.42894055[source]▶

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No hypothetical there - it has already happened, just not about Tiananmen square. Have you tried asking ChatGPT about David Mayer[1] or Jonathan Turley[1]? Give it a whirl and watch the all-American censorship at work.

Corporations avoiding legal trouble is the one thing in common between American, Chinese, or any other AI company, really.

1. https://www.404media.co/not-just-david-mayer-chatgpt-breaks-...

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