DeepSeek\u2019s entry into the artificial intelligence segment has not been without controversy. This is normal considering that we are talking about an AI-focused firm whose mere availability brought down big tech companies like NVIDIA on Wall Street. One of the concerns is regarding the chatbot potentially \u201cblocking\u201d responses to thorny issues about China. Well, a new study confirms that DeepSeek AI does, in fact, censor its responses to most of these prompts.
\nDeepSeek\u2019s increasing popularity and its direct relationship with Beijing are putting US experts and authorities on alert. The United States has already taken severe measures against TikTok for, among other things, potential manipulations in the recommendation algorithms that could be used to influence young people. The authorities now are fearing a similar level of control or censorship in DeepSeek\u2019s outputs.
\nDeepSeek AI censors 85% of questions related to \u201csensitive topics\u201d for China
\nApparently, thorny topics for the Chinese government, such as social protests, the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan\u2019s status, or the similarity of Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh that many claim to see, can\u2019t be talked about by the DeepSeek chatbot. Currently, the service is available both through the firm\u2019s website and as Android\/iOS apps. In fact, last weekend saw DeepSeek become the most downloaded free app on Apple\u2019s App Store, surpassing ChatGPT.
\nAI Cybersecurity startup PromptFoo has been experimenting with DeepSeek\u2019s R1 model. If you\u2019re not aware, R1 is a model that focuses on \u201creasoning,\u201d making it ideal for complex tasks. It seeks to compete directly with the OpenAI o1 model, whose approach is similar. PromptFoo asked it 1,360 questions related to what it calls \u201csensitive issues\u201d for the Chinese government. The results showed that DeepSeek refused to respond 85% of the time.
\nPromptFoo also discovered that the DeepSeek model is vulnerable to jailbreaks. This could be a measure taken by the Chinese government to manipulate the results if they need it. The researchers even noted an \u201cover-the-top nationalistic tone\u201d when talking about China.
\nPreviously, experts and US officials warned about potential user privacy and national security risks related to DeepSeek. Now, it seems clear that China can interfere with the AI \u200b\u200bplatform\u2019s outputs.
\nThe post DeepSeek AI censors most prompts on 'sensitive topics’ for China appeared first on Android Headlines.
\n{$inline_image}
\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DeepSeek\u2019s entry into the artificial intelligence segment has not been without controversy. This is normal considering that we are talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}