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 shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock market.

The chatbot, which is supposedly more effective and more affordable to run than its competitors, sent 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 prompt censorship concerns. There was a refusal to address concerns about questionable topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly I experienced when I used it for the 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 address at all. What I discovered was unusual. It did answer – before quickly deleting its own reactions.