> You concluded that Deepseek is altering politically sensitive topics below the UI layer, and cited this 'research' as evidence of it

Where? I literally showed this report as a counter to the claim that “the political restrictions are applied at the presentation/UI layer only.”

> peer review and strong methodology are indeed things you'd like to have before drawing conclusion based on research

But not before raising suspicion.

> They averaged a -0.76% performance, far from Crowdstrike's headline claims that the Tibet prompt made the model 50% worse

Yup.