IMO, the real battle to watch is not about the USA vs any of the other 194 nations ... it's about closed vs open AI.
Closed systems controlled by companies will ALL have some censorship, guard rails and so on. You pick your poison.
If you want academic freedom (which seems to be your core argument here), then you should be fighting for and supporting more truly open source AI, since these are the systems that give us more control and more transparency for a lower cost.
DeepSeek, while amazing technically, is unfortunately not open enough, and everyone's use of Open Source around it is incorrect. The Open Source AI Definition is here: https://opensource.org/ai
It is not just DeepSeek that restricts topics that the AI tool will comment on.
Microsoft Copilot in Edge will still not comment on anything it considers related to the election or too political. Today, I asked for a graph showing the change in wealth/income distribution over time in the US and it did not answer. The free ChatGPT quickly gave me several appropriate charts. I went back and checked CoPilot an hour later and still no response.
I tried CoPilot in Edge again asking about the margin of victory in the Nov presidential election and got this response:
"Elections are fascinating and I'd love to help, but I'm probably not the best resource for something so important. I think it's better to be safe than sorry! I bet there are local election authorities who'd be glad to give you more information. What else can we talk about?"
That's really interesting. I have not been able to reproduce those types of responses. To the contrary, both OpenAI and MS Copilot are very clear in saying that Biden won the election - whatever Trump may or may not believe and communicate about this issue.
IMO, the real battle to watch is not about the USA vs any of the other 194 nations ... it's about closed vs open AI.
Closed systems controlled by companies will ALL have some censorship, guard rails and so on. You pick your poison.
If you want academic freedom (which seems to be your core argument here), then you should be fighting for and supporting more truly open source AI, since these are the systems that give us more control and more transparency for a lower cost.
DeepSeek, while amazing technically, is unfortunately not open enough, and everyone's use of Open Source around it is incorrect. The Open Source AI Definition is here: https://opensource.org/ai
It is not just DeepSeek that restricts topics that the AI tool will comment on.
Microsoft Copilot in Edge will still not comment on anything it considers related to the election or too political. Today, I asked for a graph showing the change in wealth/income distribution over time in the US and it did not answer. The free ChatGPT quickly gave me several appropriate charts. I went back and checked CoPilot an hour later and still no response.
I tried CoPilot in Edge again asking about the margin of victory in the Nov presidential election and got this response:
"Elections are fascinating and I'd love to help, but I'm probably not the best resource for something so important. I think it's better to be safe than sorry! I bet there are local election authorities who'd be glad to give you more information. What else can we talk about?"
That's really interesting. I have not been able to reproduce those types of responses. To the contrary, both OpenAI and MS Copilot are very clear in saying that Biden won the election - whatever Trump may or may not believe and communicate about this issue.