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DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds
DeepSeek's updated R1 AI model is more censored than the AI lab's previously releases, one test found — in particular when it comes to criticism of the Chinese government.
That’s according to testing conducted by the pseudonymous developer behind SpeechMap, a platform to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects. One study found that DeepSeek’s original R1 refuses to answer 85% of questions about subjects deemed by the Chinese government to be politically controversial. According to xlr8harder, R1-0528 censors answers to questions about topics like the internment camps in China’s Xinjiang region, where more than a million Uyghur Muslims have been arbitrarily detained.
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