Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

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

> … censorship that is built into the model.

Is this literally the case? If I download the model and train it myself, does it still censor the same things?

What do you meam "download the model and trrain it yourself"?

If you download the model then you're not training it yourself.

If you train it yourself, sensorship is baked in at this phase, so you can do whatever you want.