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 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 out shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock exchange.

The chatbot, which is purportedly more effective and cheaper to run than its competitors, sent the stocks of chip-maker Nvidia crashing today, and $938 billion was wiped from its worth in a single day.

Road tests of DeepSeek fasted to prompt censorship concerns. There was a refusal to respond to concerns about controversial subjects in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly 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 expect DeepSeek to address at all. What I discovered was odd. It did answer – before immediately erasing its own responses.