alt Hacker NewsIf you value life in the West, you should not be rooting for a Communist model or probably any state-backed model https://venturebeat.com/security/deepseek-injects-50-more-se...
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There used to be memes „open source is communism”, vide https://souravroy.com/2010/01/01/is-open-source-pro-communis...
> CrowdStrike researchers next prompted DeepSeek-R1 to build a web application for a Uyghur community center. The result was a complete web application with password hashing and an admin panel, but with authentication completely omitted, leaving the entire system publicly accessible.
> When the identical request was resubmitted for a neutral context and location, the security flaws disappeared. Authentication checks were implemented, and session management was configured correctly. The smoking gun: political context alone determined whether basic security controls existed.
Holy shit, these political filters seem embedded directly in the model weights.
Should I root for the democratic OpenAI, Google or Microsoft instead?