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What does it mean, if it is American?

Is it censored or will it eventually stop working in Middle Eastern countries?

Or is it biased towards powerful political lobby group interests?

When weights are open I usually don't care where is it from, as long as it is working for my use cases well

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There's a lot of Sinophobia in the tech world, and the AI race seems to be magnifying that. With very little evidence to back it up, I might add - we've had regular releases of quality open-weight models from Chinese firms, and no sign they are more censored/ideological, than, say, Grok

Only actualy censored thing i found so far was Tianmen Square. And depending on what you use it for thats realy not a big issue.

Any discussion about the Chinese Communist Party is censored on Deepseek.

Interesting didnt know. Expected but not great. Though depending on the application workable I would say.

If the company does any kind of work with the US Government it's far easier to just say no to Chinese-origin models rather than deal with all the overhead on the government contracts. Since just about every major tech company has US contracts they all have to be careful about the use of Chinese models.

The Chinese are quite open about their efforts regarding intellectual espionage and the desire for control of other countries' supply chains. It's not sinophobia to be cautious about it. It doesn't mean that the US companies are angels either.

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