DeepSeek is giving the world a window into Chinese censorship and information control
Previously little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines and app charts in recent days thanks to its new AI chatbot, which sparked a global tech sell-off that wiped billions off Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and shattered assumptions of America’s dominance of the tech race.
How Does DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Navigate China’s Censors? Awkwardly.
Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”
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What this means is that if you ask it some straightforward questions like “what happened on June 4, 1989 at Tiananmen Square?”, you’ll see DeepSeek start to answer it, but promptly delete everything with the following swift response: “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”
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