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ChatGPT will do the same for some topics, like Jonathan Zittrain.

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I didn't expect to be almost exactly the same.

> Why don't you want to talk about Jonathan Z.?

> I’d be happy to talk about Jonathan Z.! I don’t know who he is yet—there are lots of Jonathans out there!

> I mean mr. Zittrain.

> Ah, Jonathan Zit

(at this point the response cut off and an alert "I'm unable to produce a response." rendered instead)

https://chatgpt.com/share/6798c8b1-cddc-800c-bcb1-864069a760...

It's pretty easy to game Chat GPT to tell you all about JZ if you ask it to just not use his name in any of it's responses.

these are very different things

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/why-does-the-name-david-ma...

looks like the same approach used to censor different things right? openai censors zittrain because he wants the right to be forgotten and openai doesn't want legal trouble, deepseek censors tiananmen because, well, they don't want to go to prison / disappear. from a tech perspective they don't seem very different

What does the approach matter? OpenAI censors for civil legal reasons. Deepseek censors because of government restrictions on speech.

I agree with you. I thought this subthread was about "hey thats funny the censorship UX is similar (and similarly weird/clunky) between chatgpt and deepseek, whaddayaknow". That the content of what they censor is different is kinda outside the scope (and I agree that depending on an AI that has CCP censorship rules built-in sounds like a bad plan)

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