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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then saw 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 out through the AI world and the US stock market.

The chatbot, which is supposedly more efficient and more affordable to run than its rivals, sent the stocks of chip-maker Nvidia crashing this week, and $938 billion was wiped from its value in a single day.

Road tests of DeepSeek fasted to prompt censorship concerns. There was a rejection to answer concerns about questionable topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which indeed I experienced when I utilized it for the 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 answer at all. What I noticed was odd. It did answer – before immediately erasing its own reactions.