The main difference here is not that DeepSeek's model is completely free of censorship (although I'd wager it's less censored), but that it's open-weight. That has two major advantages:
1) If Anthropic/OpenAI/Google bans you - you're screwed, you can't access their model at all, but if DeepSeek bans - you just go to another provider, or host the model yourself.
2) If the model refuses to answer you can uncensor it (and this is getting easier and more automated day-by-day[1]).
The main difference here is not that DeepSeek's model is completely free of censorship (although I'd wager it's less censored), but that it's open-weight. That has two major advantages:
1) If Anthropic/OpenAI/Google bans you - you're screwed, you can't access their model at all, but if DeepSeek bans - you just go to another provider, or host the model yourself.
2) If the model refuses to answer you can uncensor it (and this is getting easier and more automated day-by-day[1]).
[1] -- https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic