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Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes.
The hottest new AI model is Chinese made—and it’s avoiding questions about Tiananmen Square, Taiwan and Xi Jinping.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose, generative AI chatbot while R1 is a less versatile model optimized for task-specific inquiries, but DeepSeek will still answer questions in a similar fashion to the OpenAI product—unless it’s asked about censored topics. Training models to refuse to answer politically controversial questions or shut down conversations with persistent users slows down the development process, and goes against the nature of generative AI, which is often random and unpredictable. Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang told CNBC on Thursday (without evidence) DeepSeek built its product using roughly 50,000 Nvidia H100 chips it can’t mention because it would violate U.S. export controls that ban the sale of such chips to Chinese companies, and Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon later called DeepSeek’s figures highly misleading, saying the roughly $5 million cost estimate issued by the company for the product excluded the prior research, experiments, algorithms, data and costs associated with building it out.
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