The article says that DeepSeek was easier to unalign to obey the users instruction. It has less refusals and they make that sound like a bad thing.
If anything, it’s a glowing positive praise for the model. Looks like Western media is starting a campaign to gaslight people into thinking that users being able to tune the model to work the way they want is somehow a negative.
From a state control perspective it is. It’s unreliable for state purposes. The AI is less able to stick to a programmed narrative.