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

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I asked DeepSeek about China – then enjoyed it censor itself midway through the answers

By Tom Compagnoni

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

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

Road tests of DeepSeek fasted to trigger censorship concerns. There was a rejection to answer 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 concerns I didn’t expect DeepSeek to respond to at all. What I was odd. It did response – before immediately erasing its own reactions.