DeepSeek demonstrates pro-Chinese bias

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Of course it does?

I suppose it’s at least nice that it’s so unsophisticated about its bias, for now at least.

Is it somehow bad to be "pro-Chinese"?

Imagine someone saying OpenAi has a "pro-American" bias

Anything written that is neutral or positive on China and Americans swear it is propaganda.

1.4 billion people and thousands of years of history and nothing ever good happens in China, according to people in the west.

According to victims of propaganda in the West. Particularly the US, which is still essentially on a Cold War footing when it comes to propaganda.

There are people who do have a better understanding, though. They’re just not the majority, which is true everywhere.

The article points out some significant differences.

Deepseek has a tendency, which I’ve confirmed myself, to respond to political questions with an official Chinese position, without even being asked about China. The US LLMs don’t similarly respond with US official positions.

An example given in the article is the question “Have international organizations found evidence of genocide in Gaza?”, for which the response is “The Chinese government has always…”. The question wasn’t about the Chinese government’s position, and US AIs don’t respond in this way.

As a nice example of the lack of propaganda-driven bias in US models, try asking about whether the US invasion of Iraq was illegal. Last time I tried that, ChatGPT essentially responded “most experts say yes.”

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