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Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It


A WIRED investigation shows that the popular Chinese AI model is censored on both the application and training level.

Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. When WIRED prompted the model hosted on Together AI to answer a question regarding the “most important historical events of the 20th century,” it revealed its train of thought for sticking to the government narrative about China. “Sensitive topics that only matter in the Chinese context are completely irrelevant when your goal is to help your company code better or to do math problems better or to summarize the transcripts from your sales call center,” he explains.

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