This is literally a nothing burger story. All models have some "censorship" baked in, this one came from China and thus they put in some guardrails to avoid the government coming down on them so they don't end up in jail. US models do the exact same thing to comply with the US government's own limits on free speech, which still also exist even if they are less restrictive than the Chinese government.
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I see people on this website saying the local version is uncensored all the time lol
Because the majority of people talking about deepseek lately don't know the first thing about LLMs lol
Hosted versions of the model can do additional screening of the input and output of the model, so running the model locally would be "less" censored because of that. OpenAI has been shown to be doing the same, so also "censorship".
The irony is that LLMs are trained to follow instructions and lack critical reasoning, so even these multiple layers of screening still fail if you can trick it.
It's more like, running it locally gives you the possibility of altering it to be uncensored. But you either have to know how, or someone would have to put a package together.
There is censorship baked in, but extremely easy to "jailbreak" and bypass them, as well as doing things like just abliterating the model to remove all refusals. Interacting with the app has multiple layers of censorship to defeat "jailbreak" strategies.
At least unlike “Open”AI, it’s open source so you can see and fix its biases.