alt Hacker NewsWhy is this surprising? Isn't it mandatory for chinese companies to do adhere to the censorship?
Aside from the political aspect of it, which makes it probably a bad knowledge model, how would this affect coding tasks for example?
One could argue that Anthropic has similar "censorships" in place (alignment) that prevent their model from doing illegal stuff - where illegal is defined as something not legal (likely?) in the USA.
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There's a pretty huge difference between relatively generic stuff like "don't teach people how to make pipe bombs" or whatever vs "don't discuss topics that are politically sensitive specifically in <country>."
The equivalent here for the US would probably be models unwilling to talk about chattel slavery, or Japanese internment, or the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
> Why is this surprising?
Because the promise of "open-source" (which this isn't; it's not even open-weight) is that you get something that proprietary models don't offer.
If I wanted censored models I'd just use Claude (heavily censored).
It's not surprising. It is a major flaw.
It is not surprising, it is disappointing.
here's an example of how model censorship affects coding tasks: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603