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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then viewed it censor itself midway through the responses

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 market.

The chatbot, which is supposedly more efficient and cheaper to run than its rivals, sent out the stocks of chip-maker Nvidia crashing today, 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 refusal to answer questions about controversial subjects 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 noticed was weird. It did answer – before quickly erasing its own actions.