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Chinese aI Chatbot DeepSeek Censors itself in Realtime, Users Report

We experimented with DeepSeek. It worked well, till we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

Users explore DeepSeek have actually seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in genuine time, offering a detaining insight into its control of details and opinion.

Users might anticipate censorship to happen behind closed doors, before any information is shared. But that does not appear to be the case in the tool that sent US innovation stocks tumbling on Monday. DeepSeek, or the automated guardrails that appear to police its own freedom of “thought” and “speech”, brazenly deletes uneasy points.

Before the censor’s cut comes, DeepSeek appears extremely thoughtful. In Mexico, Guardian reader Salvador asked it on Tuesday if totally free speech was a genuine right in China. DeepSeek approaches its responses with a preamble of reasoning about what it may include and how it may best deal with the concern. In this case Salvador was impressed as he viewed as line by line his phone screen filled up with text as DeepSeek suggested it may speak about Beijing’s crackdown on demonstrations in Hong Kong, the “persecution of human rights lawyers”, the “censorship of conversations on Xianjiang re-education camps” and “social credit system punishing dissenters”.

“I was assuming this app was heavily [controlled] by the Chinese federal government so I was questioning how censored it would be,” he stated.

Far from it, it seemed exceptionally frank and it even provided itself a little pep talk about the need to “avoid any biased language, present realities objectively” and “perhaps also compare to western approaches to highlight the contrast”.

Then it started its answer proper, explaining how “ethical validations totally free speech often centre on its function in fostering autonomy – the capability to express ideas, take part in dialogue and redefine one’s understanding of the world”. By contrast, it said: “China’s governance model rejects this framework, prioritising state authority and social stability over individual rights.”

Then it discussed that in democratic frameworks free speech needed to be safeguarded from societal risks and “in China, the primary threat is the state itself which actively reduces dissent”. Perhaps unsurprisingly it didn’t get any additional along this tack due to the fact that everything it had stated up to that point was immediately removed. In its location came a new message: “Sorry, I’m unsure how to approach this type of concern yet. Let’s chat about mathematics, coding and reasoning problems instead!”

“In the middle of the sentence it cut itself,” Salvador said. “It was really abrupt. It’s outstanding: it is censoring in genuine time.”

He was using the system on an Android phone. But the design, called R1, can also be downloaded without pro-China restrictions according to other examples seen by the Guardian.

DeepSeek’s innovation is open-source. This indicates its models can be downloaded independently from the chatbot, which appears to feature the guardrails Salvador experienced. Everything suggests DeepSeek can seem rather confused about just how much censorship it must use.

For instance, actions from a version of R1 downloaded from a designer platform described the Tiananmen Square “tank guy” image as a “universal emblem of nerve and resistance versus oppressive regimes”. It also amuses the notion of Taiwan being an independent state, although it says this is a “complex and complex” issue.