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Fine analogy.

This is just me being childish, but it would be fun if we could incept the joke that LLM censorship = corn.

The rest of the owl draws itself in the imagination of the listener.

It's a slightly facetious comment on how the same model had gone from definitely not censored to definitely censored. The tripwire for the filter was obviously already there.

I mean, his username is manicdave. Psychosis is a symptom of mania. It's a pretty wild thought.

You get the exact same cookie cutter response in the llama models, and the qwen models process the question and answer. The filter is deepseek's contribution.

China is an entire economy built on intellectual property thievery and slave labor.

so, just like the united states when it suited them, no? do read about united states in nineteenth century once. oh, and: you do realise that slavery in some circumstances is still legal in the u.s.?

The quants who built DeepSeek in their 20% time must really feel the sting of all that communism, I tell you hwat.

an entire economy built on intellectual property thievery

The historic attitude of the US to copyright is interesting (you can still see old English-language books that are labelled not for sale in the USA). In these enlightened days of course there’s a half-trillion dollar plan to shore up the LLM business, which is already a half-trillion dollar crater of debt and is still digging hard.

and slave labor

I always wondered how the manufacture of white goods in the US was competitive with the likes of Mexico, and it turns out that the secret ingredient is incredibly cheap prison labor, where the prisoners face significant negative consequences if they’re not prepared to work for pennies.

Prisoners can be firefighters for a few dollars a day and risk their lives, but are denied jobs when they get out. California, that noted bleeding heart lefty bastion, refused to abolish penal servitude (ie. slavery of prisoners).

The US health insurance industry means that huge swathes of the population may as well be indentured because cannot afford basic healthcare if they quit and changing employers risks rejection of coverage of pre-existing conditions.

I could go on. For quite a while.

all the downvotes confirm the ccp is here and active on the fediverse

By all accounts, the ccp do a pretty poor job of influence operations compared to russia. Personally I suspect that the fediverse is just too small compared to twitter and bluesky and reddit, so why would anyone bother here?

Truth is, both the US and the PRC are capitalist hellholes of differing degrees, and the current team in the White House works hard to reduce those differences. Remember, with the right wing, it is always projection and envy. They hate Iran because they want to be a fundamentalist dictatorship too. They hate china because they want uncontested power and a labor force without human rights.

You are not obliged to carry water for them.

there are lots of complaints one can level at ccp-run china without having to dip right into this strand of sinophobia, what the utter lazy fuck. bullshit like this that helps the world stay bad and intolerant. fuck off with it.

(sincerely: one of your downvotes from sunny ZA)

no, the downvotes are me because a lot of these takes are shitty

Oh hey Sam Altman is here, doing his best to bring down deepseek

Enjoy your trip to the egress.