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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then saw it censor itself midway through the answers

By Tom Compagnoni

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

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

Road tests of DeepSeek fasted to trigger censorship concerns. There was a rejection to address questions about questionable topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly 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 address at all. What I noticed was weird. It did response – before without delay erasing its own reactions.