Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning which it then erases
• We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
Users 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 to currently be the case in the tool that sent US technology stocks tumbling on Monday. DeepSeek, or the automated guardrails that appear to police its own freedom of “thought” and “speech”, brazenly deletes uncomfortable points.