What the hell do people expect?
After the release of R1 I saw so many "But it can't talk about tank man!", "But it's censored!", "But it's from the chinese!" posts.
- They are all censored. And for R1 in particular... I don't want to discuss chinese politics (or politics at all) with my LLM. That's not my use-case and I don't think I'm in a minority here.
What would happen if it was not censored the way it is? The guy behind it would probably have disappeared by now.
They all give a fuck about data privacy as much as they can. Else we wouldn't have ever read about samsung engineers not being allowed to use GPT for processor development anymore.
The model itself is much less censored than the web chat
IMHO it's not worse or better than the rest (non self-hosted) and the negative media reports are 1:1 the same like back in the days when Zen was released by AMD and all Intel could do was cry like "But it's just cores they glued together!"
Edit: Added clarification that the web chat is more censored than the model itself (self-hosted)