Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. (www.perplexity.ai)
from Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 23:55
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 00:41 next collapse

That’s the great thing about open models. Censorship? Once identified, all it takes is one person and a bit of cash to get rid of it, though it seems Perplexity did a particularly good job (unlike some “abliterated” models that are pretty dumbed down).

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Feb 02:58 collapse

Can’t wait to try a distillation. The full model is huge.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 05:03 collapse

In the 32B range? I think we have plenty of uncensored thinking models there, maybe try fusion 32B.

I’m not an expert though, as models trained from base Qwen have been sufficient for that, for me.

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Feb 05:26 collapse

I just want to mess with this one too. I had a hard time finding an abliterated one before that didn’t fail the Tiananmen Square question regularly.

FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 01:06 next collapse

I think we can all agree that modifications to these models which remove censorship and propaganda on behalf of one particular country or party is valuable for the sake of accuracy and impartiality, but reading some of the example responses for the new model I honestly find myself wondering if they haven’t gone a bit further than that by replacing some of the old non-responses and positive portrayals of China and the CPC with a highly critical perspective typified by western governments which are hostile to China (in particular the US). Even the name of the model certainly doesn’t make it sound like neutrality and accuracy is their primary aim here.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 20 Feb 01:27 next collapse

ehhhh, the only thing the model got quite wrong was the level of control on access to media, internet, and especially education. Other than that the article's example responses seem pretty on-point. (I only otherwise found a blemish where a few words needed further clarification; I found no other errors in my first reading.) Though I do also find the name of the model quite off-putting.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 05:06 next collapse

Well you can merge it with the original model, to any degree, to get any sliding scale of “bias” you want.

Practically, though, I guess that’s not super practical, as very few have the hardware or cash to deploy a custom full R1 themselves.

iopq@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 06:50 next collapse

What part is highly critical of China? Facts can’t be critical

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 08:01 collapse

Listen, I’m highly critical of the CCP, but LLMs aren’t facts machines, they are make text like what they are trained on machines.

They have no grasp of truth, and we can only get some sense of truth of what the average collective text response of its dataset (at best!).

iopq@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 08:08 collapse

I’m talking about the example texts

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 07:19 collapse

LLMs are gigantic bias reproduction machines, so it will never be perfect.

Korkki@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 03:48 next collapse

Now that it has been “freedomized” it instead says that Israel is actually 3000+ years old and Palestinians are invaders, and Israel has the right to defend itself like chatgpt does. Also that American style liberal democracy is the peak of human development and civilization. Don’t kid yourself that this has anything to do with truth or making it more “accurate”. Yeah just replace one set of official truths, half thrush with other set of official positions, half truths and outright lies to plug the gaps. Again, who fact checks the factcheckers? Even just out of spite I would not use any model that advertises itself as being trained to answer to the sensibilities of a western techbro liberals so that they can once more outsource their thinking to outside party, because at-least it isn’t the CCP propaganda. Like it’s so absolutely dreadful when deepseek copy-pastes official CPC party line word for word, on Chinese form of government instead of making up some Wikipedia tier wall of text where the word “authoritarian” is about as common of a word as “the”.

I just don’t get it man. What kind of non thinking cretin purposefully would use this kind of model? It’s probably really the pettiness that gets to me so badly. Or maybe it’s that while this is purposefully made to push a certain narrative, the deepseek’s bias is probably just a result that it’s been trainer on Chinese internet data.

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 09:57 collapse

My chatgpt will list the questionable human righfs record of Israel ad agree with the conclusion that they are, under the same standards and logic, likely guilty of their accused atrocities as thenlikes of China or Russia.

thefluffiest@feddit.nl on 20 Feb 05:12 next collapse

Great. Has it also removed American censorship and propaganda?

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 20 Feb 08:09 next collapse

Why would a Chinese-made AI have American censorship and propaganda in it?

UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:13 collapse

They can add stuff too. At least it seems so, this model still give biased answers now but more in favor of the US… So who knows ?

DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 08:51 collapse

I believe this is what was added

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 07:11 next collapse

IDK, but this seems like wankery to me. Just google it if you want to know about it, the AI isn’t an “all knowing being” nor “the arbitrer of truth”.

I have a feeling that a new logical fallacy will soon emerge (if it isn’t already widespread on certain places of the internet), that will be “X is true because the LLM said so”.

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 20 Feb 07:33 next collapse

Seems like almost everyone understands that it hallucinates.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 07:56 collapse

It’s really an extension of “Would some really do that? Just lie on the Internet?” But now “Would AI, which is built to create content like what people post on the Internet, really just lie?”

GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 08:51 next collapse

My god, could he have chosen a name more cringe than this? Fuck.

MunkyNutts@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 16:26 collapse

An attempt to appeal to U.S. conservatives maybe? You know all that 1776, 3%, ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ etc. sticker suckers.

GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 17:01 next collapse

From what I gather from the Perplexity CEO, he is just that type of Musk-tier cringelord, so yes, probably

Beldarofremulak@discuss.online on 20 Feb 18:04 collapse

“Pat’rats”

vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 Feb 13:25 next collapse

not remove ic replace.

Also, stop calling releasing binary blobs of weights as open source

brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 23:16 collapse

It’s honestly not that big a deal, as it’s not like knowing anything about how it was trained (beyond the config) would help you modify it. It’s still highly modifiable. It’s not like anyone can afford to replicate it.

It would be nice to publish the hyperparameters for research purposes, but… shrug.

I think a subset of the exact training data/hyperparameters would help with quantization-aware-training, maybe, but that’s all I got.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:30 next collapse

Ctrl + F

Find: Chinese

Replace: God-damned Chinese

New model’s ready!

biofaust@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:56 collapse

I run an uncensored version on my PC since weeks, there are multiple ones on HuggingFace.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 23:16 collapse

Not full R1, which is developed differently than any of the distillations.