There’s an epic scene in Gangajaal, the cult classic movie made by Bollywood director Prakash Jha where Ajay Devgn’s character SP Amit Kumar chews out Inspector Bachcha Yadav who appears to be an extremely diligent officer who follows the forces of law and order until it comes to cases of the Yadav family where he moves with the alacrity of a snail returning home from a funeral after on a lazy Sunday afternoon. DeepSeekR1, the LLM that everyone seems to be talking about has a similar flaw especially when asked any prickly questions about China, Mao, Xi Jinping or his resemblance to Winnie the Pooh.
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