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Chinese aI Chatbot DeepSeek Censors itself in Realtime, Users Report

We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, up until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

Users explore DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and after that censor itself in real time, offering a detaining insight into its control of information and viewpoint.

Users might expect censorship to occur 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 flexibility of “idea” and “speech”, brazenly deletes uncomfortable points.

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

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

Far from it, it seemed extremely frank and it even offered itself a little pep talk about the requirement to “avoid any biased language, present truths objectively” and “maybe also compare to western methods to highlight the contrast”.

Then it began its response correct, explaining how “ethical reasons free of charge speech typically centre on its function in fostering autonomy – the ability to reveal ideas, participate in dialogue and redefine one’s understanding of the world”. By contrast, it said: “China’s governance design rejects this framework, prioritising state authority and social stability over individual rights.”

Then it described that in democratic frameworks free speech required to be safeguarded from social risks and “in China, the main risk is the state itself which actively reduces dissent”. Perhaps unsurprisingly it didn’t get any more along this tack because everything it had said up to that point was immediately erased. In its location came a new message: “Sorry, I’m unsure how to approach this kind of question yet. Let’s chat about math, coding and logic problems rather!”

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

He was utilizing 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 suggests its designs can be downloaded separately from the chatbot, which appears to feature the guardrails Salvador experienced. All of it suggests DeepSeek can seem somewhat confused about how much censorship it should use.

For example, reactions from a version of R1 downloaded from a designer platform explained the Tiananmen Square “tank man” image as a “universal emblem of courage and resistance against oppressive routines”. It also entertains the concept of Taiwan being an independent state, although it states this is a “complex and diverse” concern.

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