{"id":147907,"date":"2025-02-03T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/no-deepseek-isnt-uncensored-if-you-run-it-locally-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:52:42","slug":"no-deepseek-isnt-uncensored-if-you-run-it-locally-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/no-deepseek-isnt-uncensored-if-you-run-it-locally-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"No, DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There\u2019s an idea floating around<\/a> that DeepSeek\u2019s well-documented censorship<\/a> only exists at its application layer but goes away if you run it locally (that means downloading its AI model to your computer.)<\/p>\n

But DeepSeek\u2019s censorship is baked-in, according to a Wired investigation<\/a> which found that the model is censored on both the application and training levels.<\/p>\n

For example, a locally-run version of DeepSeek revealed to Wired thanks to its reasoning feature that it should \u201cavoid mentioning\u201d events like the Cultural Revolution and focus only on the \u201cpositive\u201d aspects of the Chinese Communist Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A quick check by TechCrunch of a locally-run version of DeepSeek available via Groq<\/a> also showed clear censorship: DeepSeek happily answered a question about the Kent State shootings<\/a> in the U.S., but replied \u201cI cannot answer\u201d when asked about what happened<\/a> in Tiananmen Square in 1989.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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There\u2019s an idea floating around that DeepSeek\u2019s 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\u2019s censorship is baked-in, according to a Wired investigation which found that the model is censored on both the application and training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}