Deepseek avoids topics that are usually considered political. AI as a hallucination machine is especially useless with political content as it is extremely polluted with propaganda and wildly different views on similar contexts, so it isn't for censorship. And yes, the people in China know about and speak about their leadership.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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China has a pretty strict policy about not allowing anything that is anti-social and can be used to create mass unrest. A generative AI that can produce millions of fake news stories about political leaders is one of those anti-social things. It was one of the reasons OpenAI was so terrified of the possibilities of what they figured out. China just made it policy instead of sitting idly by whole bad actors automated incendiary publishing.
Not a Chinese person, and I don't really know much about their style, but if random guesses are ok:
It may have been turned off, due to the risk that politically motivated actors may use it to print out something and then use it for propaganda, saying that a Chinese AI has exposed the CPC n all?
Especially since the U S is a trade war with them and there has been usage of genocide propaganda^*^ against them?
* - Considering that the same people have no similar level of concern about Gaza
I think you should ask in some Chinese community. If not, maybe most of the answers would be similar to mine, guesses, which will mostly be our views rather than the fact whether the average Chinese person has info on their leaders.
εεεε θΏζ―δΈδΈͺη§ε― In all seriousness though yes they know. Deepseek just doesnt allow politics. ε°ηΊ’δΉ¦ and social media have similar rules. Politics in China is serious not something people need to talk to a hallucinating machine about, or discuss anonymously online. You can see why this is a bad idea if you look at the USA today. Its best to discuss in person and do so calmly and rationally.
Remember chinese netizens have access to all the same information westerners do online. Many speak english, and a VPN is easy to use to go on other sites.
@j4k3 Filtering out everything about them is the simplest way to block anything critical of them.
The Chinese government literally has a 95.5% approval rating as researched by Harvard University over 15 years. The party is not terribly worried about criticism. In fact, because the party is structured with a bunch of internal factions, they are constantly experiencing criticism.
That seems quite dystopian to me. I'd at least like to know who my assailant is when I am harmed. Is there some reliable channel with accessible information in a democratic social context that is not sketchy? Not that the USA has such when Musk is first citizen of Rome or the real senate is a Koch meeting convened every 6 months.
You should view this post from Lemmy.ml, you are getting good responses from instances you can't see because .world defederated from them.