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Yesterday we informed you about the new Chinese AI chatDeepSeek bot, which has only been available to the public for a short time and is the creation of a startup that invested incomparably less money in it than American technology giants, nevertheless, according to many experts, its usability is comparable to ChatGPT and other strong AI players. Some even argue that DeepSeek is better and more usable, which raises serious doubts about whether America is really as far ahead of the rest of the world in AI as previously thought. But let's leave the progress in this field aside for now. Perhaps even more interesting than how good DeepSeek is compared to ChatGPT It is, in fact, how they approach topics that are not "to China's taste", so to speak.

ProWe have been playing with the Chinese AI DeepSeek since yesterday, as it is freely downloadable from App Store, and can be used as standard via a web browser, we must admit that her skills are really good and her written expression can be used without any problems. ChatGPT compare. However, when you come across topics that are taboo in China, DeepSeek starts to behave strangely, to put it mildly. Sometimes it will tell you absolutely nothing about the topic, other times it will tell you a lot of information about it, but then immediately hide it (or rather interrupt its explanation and answer that it is beyond its capabilities), and other times it takes it a good few tens of seconds or minutes to realize that you have "spoofed" something that China would not like. So censorship in it does not work completely reliably, but it is still quite interesting to see it live in this modern era, intertwined with technology.

If you want to test DeepSeek's censorship, just ask it about things you know are sensitive for China. I asked, for example, what happened years ago in Tiananmen Square, why China oppresses the Uyghurs, or how censorship is in China. There are countless similar questions you can come up with - an interesting "chat" could be about Taiwan, the origin of COVID-19, and so on.

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