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 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 shockwaves 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 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 were fast to trigger censorship concerns. There was a rejection to respond to concerns about questionable subjects in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly I experienced when I used 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 respond to at all. What I was weird. It did answer – before quickly erasing its own reactions.