{"id":3127,"date":"2025-02-03T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/deepseek-not-uncensored-locally\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:20:00","slug":"deepseek-not-uncensored-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/deepseek-not-uncensored-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek Not Uncensored Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s an idea circulating around that DeepSeek&#8217;s well-documented censorship only exists at its application layer but disappears when run locally (i.e., downloading its AI model to your computer).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, DeepSeek&#8217;s censorship is deeply ingrained, according to a Wired investigation, which found that the model is censored on both the application and training levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, a locally-run version of DeepSeek revealed to Wired thanks to its reasoning feature that it should &#8220;avoid mentioning&#8221; events like the Cultural Revolution and focus only on the &#8220;positive&#8221; aspects of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quick check by TechCrunch of a locally-run version of DeepSeek available via Groq also showed clear censorship: DeepSeek happily answered a question about the Kent State shootings in the U.S., but replied &#8220;I cannot answer&#8221; when asked about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/03\/no-deepseek-isnt-uncensored-if-you-run-it-locally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an idea circulating around that DeepSeek&#8217;s well-documented censorship only exists at its application layer but disappears when run locally (i.e., downloading its AI model to your computer). However, DeepSeek&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[65,118,62,120],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-china","tag-deepseek","tag-generative-ai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2195739346.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}