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 rival OpenAI, Google and Meta, has actually 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 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 fasted to prompt censorship concerns. There was a refusal to address concerns about controversial topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly I experienced when I utilized it for the very first time.

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

I then asked it some other concerns I didn’t anticipate DeepSeek to address at all. What I noticed was strange. It did response – before immediately deleting its own actions.