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There ’s an idea floatingaroundthat DeepSeek ’s well - documentedcensorshiponly exist at its program layer but goes away if you course it topically ( that means download its AI model to your data processor ) .
But DeepSeek ’s censorship is bake - in , according to aWired investigationwhich constitute that the model is censored on both the software and education levels .
For example , a locally run interlingual rendition of DeepSeek revealed to Wired thanks to its reasoning feature that it should “ avoid observe ” events like the Cultural Revolution and focus only on the “ incontrovertible ” aspects of the Chinese Communist Party .
A quick halt by TechCrunch of a locally run version of DeepSeekavailable via Groqalso showed clear censoring : DeepSeek merrily answered a question about the Kent Stateshootingsin the U.S. , but replied “ I can not suffice ” when asked aboutwhat happenedin Tiananmen Square in 1989 .
