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 brand-new Chinese chatbot to competing OpenAI, Google and Meta, has sent shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock exchange.

The chatbot, which is supposedly more efficient and cheaper to run than its rivals, sent 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 were fast to trigger censorship concerns. There was a rejection to address concerns about questionable topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which certainly 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 questions I didn’t anticipate DeepSeek to answer at all. What I saw was odd. It did answer – before quickly erasing its own responses.