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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 rival OpenAI, Google and Meta, has sent out shockwaves through the AI world and the US stock market.

The chatbot, which is purportedly more effective and more affordable to run than its competitors, sent out 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 fast to trigger censorship concerns. There was a refusal to answer concerns about questionable subjects in China such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, which undoubtedly 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 anticipate DeepSeek to answer at all. What I discovered was odd. It did answer - before promptly erasing its own responses.