28-01-2025 20:31 via theguardian.com

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report

Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erasesWe tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and TaiwanUsers experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into its control of information and opinion.Users might expect censorship to happen behind closed doors, before any information is shared. But that does not seem t
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