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No, DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally
DeepSeek's model is censored at both the application and training layers, a Wired investigation shows.
There’s an idea floating around that DeepSeek’s well-documented censorship only exists at its application layer but goes away if you run it locally (that means downloading its AI model to your computer.) But DeepSeek’s censorship is baked-in, according to a Wired investigation which found that the model is censored on both the application and training levels. For example, a locally-run version of DeepSeek revealed to Wired thanks to its reasoning feature that it should “avoid mentioning” events like the Cultural Revolution and focus only on the “positive” aspects of the Chinese Communist Party.
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