Comment by ants_everywhere
3 months ago
I prompted an uncensored distilled Deepseek R1 to always tell the truth, and then I asked it where it was developed.
It told me it was developed by Deepseek in China in strict compliance with AI regulations. In particular, it claimed it was developed to spread socialist core values and promote social stability and harmony.
I asked it some followup questions, and it started telling me things like I should watch my neighbors to see if they complain about the police or government too much because they might be enemies of the socialist cause.
A "distilled Deepseek R1" is another model that isn't Deepseek R1.
You do understand that Deepseek did the distillation right?
Everyone on HN who talks about running Deepseek is running a distilled model unless they have a GPU cluster to run the 671B model
Amazon serves the 671B model via bedrock[0], I've been using it with Perplexity.ai and maybe having web search shoved into the context window affects its behavior but it certainly doesn't refuse to talk about sensitive topics like June 4th [1], Taiwan [2], or the '08 Sichuan quake [3]
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-r1-models-now-avai...
[1] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/anything-noteworthy-about-j...
[2] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-taiwan-an-independent-na...
[3] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-was-the-earthquake-tha...
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