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 answers

By Tom Compagnoni

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

The chatbot, which is supposedly more efficient and cheaper to run than its competitors, sent the stocks of chip-maker Nvidia crashing today, and $938 billion was cleaned from its value in a single day.

Road tests of DeepSeek were fast to prompt censorship issues. There was a rejection to address concerns about controversial topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which certainly I experienced when I utilized 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 anticipate DeepSeek to address at all. What I saw was weird. It did response – before immediately deleting its own responses.