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Great as long as you’re not interested in Tiananmen Square or the Uighurs.

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I just tried asking ChatGPT how many civilians Israel murdered in Gaza. It didn't answer.

A is wrong but that’s fine because B also is.

Does Israel make ChatGPT?

i can’t think of a single commercial use case, outside of education, where that’s even relevant. But i agree it’s messed up from an ethical / moral perspective.

Well those are the overt political biases. Would you trust DeepSeek to advise on negotiating with a Chinese business?

I’m no xenophobe, but seeing the internal reasoning of DeepSeek explicitly planning to ensure alignment with the government give me pause.

i wouldn’t use AI for negotiating with a business period. I’d hire a professional human that has real hands on experience working with chinese businesses?

seems like a weird thing to use AI for, regardless of who created the model.

Interesting. I want my AI tools to be suitable for any kind of brainstorming or iteration.

But yeah if you’re scoping your uses to things where you’re sure a government-controlled LLM won’t bias results, it should be fine.

Yeah i can definitely see some situations where i’d be wary, i agree with you. Wouldn’t impact my work but i see the concern.

I use LLM’s for technical solution brainstorming, rubber-ducking technical problems, and learning (software languages, devops, software design, etc.)

Your mileage will vary of course!

american models have their own bugbears like around evolution and intellectual property

For sensitive topics, it is good that we canknow cross ask Grok, DeepSeek and ChatGPT to avoid any kind of biases or no-reply answers.

The censorship is not present in the distilled models which you can run locally

Have you even tried it out locally and asked about those things?

https://sherwood.news/tech/a-free-powerful-chinese-ai-model-...

so, no

try asking US models about the influence of Israeli diaspora on funding genocide in Gaza then come back

Which American models? Are you suggesting the US government exercises control over US LLM models the way the CCP controls DeepSeek outputs?

i think both American and Chinese model censorship is done by private actors out of fear of external repercussion, not because it is explicitly mandated to them

CCP requires models to follow "socialist values".

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/18/chinese-regulators-begin...

Luckily in the US the govt can do no such things due to the 1st amendment, so it only takes a relevant billionaire to get a model with different political views.

And the EU requires models to follow "democractic liberal values" according to their AI act. Other side of the same coin.

Oh wow.

Sorry, no. DeepSeek’s reasoning outputs specifically say things like “ensuring compliance with government viewpoints”

meta just replaced its public policiy officer to pander to the new administration. american companies work hard to align with american government.

One of Meta's policy officials (Jordana Cutler) is a former Israeli government official who was censoring anti-genocide content online.

American models are full of censorship. Just different stuff.

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