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 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 out 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 quick to prompt censorship issues. There was a refusal to address questions about controversial topics in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly I experienced when I 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 anticipate DeepSeek to respond to at all. What I observed was unusual. It did answer – before quickly erasing its own responses.