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 actually sent out shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock market.

The chatbot, which is supposedly more effective and cheaper to run than its competitors, 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 were fast to prompt censorship issues. There was a rejection to respond to questions about controversial subjects in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which certainly I experienced when I used 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 questions I didn’t expect DeepSeek to respond to at all. What I observed was weird. It did response – before quickly erasing its own actions.