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How about from the perspective of the pro-democracy protestors who were there? Don't turn a brutal crackdown on people trying to gain some control of their lives and their country as an East vs. West problem.
I'm not here to discuss the validity of Tiananmen Square, that was just the example I keep seeing used.
Why does it matter if one source doesn't provide the official CIA story? You can look up how America views that event anywhere.
How is that censorship any worse than US tech companies blocking you from being able to say the word "Republican" in a negative context?
Also, you left out the most important part "without a little effort." Deepseek will happily tell you anything you want about Tiananmen Square from any perspective you ask it with a little creative prompting.
Show me. You can get it to say some slightly vague things about it, but you can’t have it say “anything from any perspective”. Can’t we just leave out a conspiracy theory while discussing AI?
Like I said, it just takes creative prompting
Hmm, I was talking about local running, but apparently that's just the non-distilled version, and someone got a very straightforward explanation with the 14B distilled version.
Then you should've specified that those were the parameters you wanted. Answers and thought processes will vary based on the prompt provided.
My point is that you can still use creative prompting to get answers you want that should be blocked due to its safety constraints. My point isn't that there's no guidelines to work around.
I'm not an AI researcher nor do I work professionally with AI so I'm not familiar with 100% of the background processes involved with these LLMs but if the question is "can you get Deepseek to talk about Tiananmen Square" then the answer is yes.