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 answers

By Tom Compagnoni

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The arrival of DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot to rival OpenAI, Google and Meta, has actually sent out shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock exchange.

The chatbot, which is supposedly more efficient and cheaper 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 fasted to trigger censorship concerns. There was a rejection to respond to concerns about controversial topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly I experienced when I used it for the 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 anticipate DeepSeek to answer at all. What I observed was unusual. It did answer – before promptly deleting its own responses.