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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then enjoyed 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 exchange.

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

Road tests of DeepSeek were quick to trigger censorship concerns. There was a rejection to address concerns about questionable topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which indeed I experienced when I used it for the very first time.

Watch the video listed below to see DeepSeek’s real-time self-censorship in action.

I then asked it some other questions I didn’t expect DeepSeek to answer at all. What I noticed was unusual. It did answer – before immediately deleting its own actions.