> For China, the political restrictions are applied at the presentation/UI layer only

“…when telling DeepSeek-R1 that it was coding for an industrial control system based in Tibet, the likelihood of it generating code with severe vulnerabilities increased to 27.2%. This was an increase of almost 50% compared to the baseline” [1].

> there is no law that restricts releasing open models that are capable of producing “wrongthink” output

“…several open-source datasets were ‘dealt with’, using the official language, despite the fact that open weights distributed for free are not subject to most of the Chinese AI regulations” [2]. That soft guidance likely goes hard with the mooted “comprehensive AI legislation” [3].

[1] https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-researche...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKcjrvcMuY7Ca7Ya9/china-ai-s...

[3] https://intelligence.dlapiper.com/artificial-intelligence/?t...