I Asked DeepSeek about China – then Watched it Censor itself Midway through The Answers

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then watched it censor itself midway through the responses

By Tom Compagnoni

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The arrival of DeepSeek, a brand-new Chinese chatbot to competing OpenAI, Google and Meta, has actually sent shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock market.

The chatbot, which is purportedly more effective and more affordable to run than its competitors, sent out the stocks of chip-maker Nvidia crashing this week, and $938 billion was wiped from its worth in a single day.

Road tests of DeepSeek fasted to trigger censorship concerns. There was a refusal to address concerns about controversial topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which certainly I experienced when I used it for the very first time.

Watch the video listed below to see self-censorship in action.

I then asked it some other questions I didn’t anticipate DeepSeek to address at all. What I observed was strange. It did response – before promptly deleting its own reactions.