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 answers

By Tom Compagnoni

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

The chatbot, which is purportedly more effective 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 rejection to answer concerns about controversial subjects in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which indeed 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 odd. It did answer – before quickly erasing its own actions.