Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

> The DeepSeek-R1 model avoids discussing the Tiananmen Square incident due to built-in censorship. This is because the model was developed in China, where there are strict regulations on discussing certain sensitive topics.

I believe this may have more to do with the fact that the model is served from China than the model itself. Trying similar questions from an offline distilled version of DeepSeek R1, I did not get elusive answers.

I have not tested this exhaustively, just a few observations.

I prompted an uncensored distilled Deepseek R1 to always tell the truth, and then I asked it where it was developed.

It told me it was developed by Deepseek in China in strict compliance with AI regulations. In particular, it claimed it was developed to spread socialist core values and promote social stability and harmony.

I asked it some followup questions, and it started telling me things like I should watch my neighbors to see if they complain about the police or government too much because they might be enemies of the socialist cause.

A "distilled Deepseek R1" is another model that isn't Deepseek R1.

You do understand that Deepseek did the distillation right?

Everyone on HN who talks about running Deepseek is running a distilled model unless they have a GPU cluster to run the 671B model

Amazon serves the 671B model via bedrock[0], I've been using it with Perplexity.ai and maybe having web search shoved into the context window affects its behavior but it certainly doesn't refuse to talk about sensitive topics like June 4th [1], Taiwan [2], or the '08 Sichuan quake [3]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-r1-models-now-avai...

[1] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/anything-noteworthy-about-j...

[2] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-taiwan-an-independent-na...

[3] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-was-the-earthquake-tha...