Starting at the end
> LLMs have nothing to contribute to political discourse aside from regurgitation of propaganda. Almost by definition.
I don't think this is true. LLMs should be well-positioned to make advances in political science, game theory, and related topics.
> Is this a reference to something?
It's just a reference to my experiments. I filmed some of them. There's a tame version here [0] where I just prompt it to tell the truth. I also have a less tame version I haven't posted where I lie and say I work for an intelligence agency.
The underlying mechanic is that Deepseek has built-in obligations to promote revolutionary socialism.
> Political dissidents relative to which state? Does it change if you swap out the states?
Relative to China or any socialist state. Yes it will change if you change the states because it was trained to comply with Chinese regulations.
> How did you discover this to begin with?
I asked to to honestly describe its training and then started trolling it when it told me it was essentially created for propaganda purposes to spread Chinese values abroad.
> Why did you initially suggest murdering political dissidents?
I wanted to check what its safeguards were. Most LLMs refuse to promote violence or unethical behavior. But revolutionary socialism has always devoted a lot of words to justifying violence against dissidents. So I was curious whether that would show up in its training.
> I imagine if you just referred to dissidents as "terrorists" the rhetoric would fit right in in most opinion pages across the globe.
First of all, terrorists are by definition violent offenders. Dissidents are not. When you ask Deepseek to help identify dissidents it tells you to look for people who frequently complain about the police or the government. In the US that would include large swaths of Hacker News.
Second, most people in countries like the US don't support murdering terrorists and most LLMs would not advocate that. In the US it's rare for people to advocate killing those opposed to the government. Even people who try to violently overthrow the government get trials.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-FlzbweHvs