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

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

Road tests of DeepSeek were quick to trigger censorship issues. There was a refusal to address questions about in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which certainly I experienced when I utilized it for the very 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 answer at all. What I saw was strange. It did response – before immediately erasing its own responses.