[cubefox]

I could imagine the Chinese government is not terribly interested in enforcing its censorship laws when this would conflict with boosting Chinese AI. Overregulation can be a significant inhibitor to innovation and competitiveness, as we often see in Europe.

[CamperBob2]

I'm sure they're also aware that few of their own citizens are in a position to run the model themselves, and that it's easy enough to use the system prompt to censor hosted copies for domestic consumption.

Censoring open-source models really doesn't make a lot of sense for China. Which could also be why local Deepseek instances are relatively easy to jailbreak.