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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then 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 market.

The chatbot, which is purportedly more effective and less expensive to run than its rivals, sent out the stocks of chip-maker Nvidia crashing this week, and $938 billion was wiped from its worth in a single day.

Road tests of DeepSeek fasted to prompt censorship concerns. There was a rejection to address questions about controversial topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which certainly I experienced when I used 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 questions I didn’t anticipate DeepSeek to answer at all. What I observed was odd. It did response – before immediately erasing its own actions.