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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then watched 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 actually sent out shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock exchange.

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

Road tests of DeepSeek were fast to prompt censorship concerns. There was a refusal to address 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 concerns I didn’t expect DeepSeek to respond to at all. What I discovered was weird. It did answer – before quickly deleting its own responses.