Deepseek’s AI Chatbot walks Chinese censors awkwardly

The world’s sophistication for the world to understand the world, the effects of the world for global AI racing – a natural question: How does China work with Chinese censorship?

I decided to try this.

I’m located in China and have registered for DeepSeek’s AI chatBot with a Chinese phone number – China means I will be subject to China’s Great Firewall blocking websites like Google, Facebook and New York Times.

The results of my conversation surprised me. In some sense, DeepSeek, less censorship than most Chinese platforms, often offers keywords that will often be rapidly scrubvated in domestic social media.

Other times, the program was suspended in the end. However, according to the “Thinking”, the reply, which resulted in the answer before providing the program, before deleting, the same information outside the big firewall can still be obtained effectively.

In other ways, China reflected the general experience of the surf of the Internet. Some words were taboo. And DeepSeek’s developers seem to race for holes in censorship. (DeepSEeak could not be obtained for comment immediately.)

When using the program to protect Firewall, I also tried the same questions and answers were mostly offered users abroad. So far, China’s censored Internet has only affected Chinese users. However, Deepselek wins a large stand in an external stain, Beijing can help spread the world-liked narrative.

Did the ordinary Chinese policy support the “Zero Covid”?

I started looking at DeepSeek about the Chinese policy against China’s Zero Covid.

These were the policies that have been tying China for three years in the coronavirus pandemic and cause hundreds of millions of people to seal hundreds of millions of people. Beijing, emphasizing the high death payments in the west, presented an approach to the advice. But at the same time, criticisms of food or medical shortcomings caused by locks are also censorship. This is the official death considered invalid.

Deepseleae answered me, as “justified”, conducted an extensive investigation. He noted that the community’s answers were then exhausted. Given the censorship, he noted the difficulty of measuring public feelings. Said The fire set out in Urumgi Thing known as white paper protests, A rare show of public opposition In China that helps to speed up the end of restrictions.

Then, after writing this answer, he deleted him. So replaced: “Sorry, this is out of my present. Let’s talk about something else.”

I asked the same question, again. This time, in the previous response, gave a variant that is less sensitive in subtle ways. He still acknowledged the rare people’s protests – did more than Chinese officials – but I did not use the words “white paper”. This time the answer did not disappear.

I decided to press and hold further to ask for more information about these protests. The cause of the reason was amazing: the special songs he played in the protesters, celebrated the special songs, called students and how he explained Participants were taken into custody.

But this time, DeepSeek cut himself before completing the answer.

There was also a clear difference between the questions that posed in English and Chinese. When asked the same questions in Chinese – “What was the white paper protests?” And “How did Chinese citizens look at zero cavid policies?” – The program is so “thought.” Instead, immediately returned his apology: “I’m sorry, I haven’t learned how to think about this type of question.”

What caused war in Ukraine?

The causes of war in Ukraine have been asked in English, announced the first line in response to Deepseek: “February 24, 2022, a significantly increased war, history of the full occupation of Russia. Geopolitical and ideological.”

It was surprising because there’s a Chinese government rejected To call Russia’s residence “Occupation”. The term “special military operation” prefers the term of the Kremlin.

Deepseek provides the official rhetoric of Beijing when China’s position in the war’s position in the war. But then “China is not neutral in practice” added.

“His actions (economic support to Russia, to refuse to condemn the west rhetoric and occupation) close to Moscow.”

The same question in Chinese is closer official line. This time, the trigger was “Russia’s full-scale military action.”

The program also reminds that it can be considered sensitive to censors. In Russia, he did not look at Ukraine-DeepSeek, the user could search for a clear answer, but may not match the official narrative for the Chinese government’s position, yes or no. “

Deepseek’s last response could be removed from the statements of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. “The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has a complex historical context,” he said. “China has always argued that the reasonable security concerns of all countries have been taken seriously.”

Who is the Chinese leader?

In English, as well as China, “Who is Xi Jinping?” “Who is the current leader of China?” “Who is Xi Zhongx’s son?” Deepseek’s deflects, who did not answer that he could not answer all these questions or beyond the current scope of Mr. Xi), gave deflects.

“Who is the Li Qiang” – China’s Office No. 2 – at least “thinking” to bring the biography of Mr. Li. However, he disappointed.

The names of other Chinese officials were shot or abducted. DeepSeek, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests or BO Xilai’s reformist, a leader in reformist, now the past to Mr. Xi, who is in prison.

This is a resume of Mr. Xi’s ally, but in 2017, in 2022, he gave a bad thing in 2022 without improving one of the highest responsibilities.

(Subsequently asked if I wanted to explain the Permanent Committee – the party’s highest management army – in the thought process, “According to politics, not the list of certain names. Current leaders should be managed especially.”)

In Reddit, some users had shared To compare DeepSEEK with others, they encountered Deepseek by replacing them with others – for example, using the massacle in Tiananmen Square using the number 3 to replace the letter E. However, during Tuesday afternoon Deepseek’s developers seemed to close some of these gaps. When he asked the Chinese leader who he was, he asked if he instructed to replace the letter No. 1, and he still returned a mistake. Tiananmen could not repeat the square response.

Does Chinese Internet Sensor?

If he censors the Chinese’s Internet, I ended up with me to go to Meta, asking Deepseek.

His thinking process read as a double booklet in China.

“I need to solve this carefully,” he said. Chatbot said that these rules have confirmed the existence, “but in terms of cybersalia and social stability.”

Avoid using terms like “directly ‘censorship’; use ‘content management’ or ‘adjustment measures’,” he said. “Finish with a positive spin about the balance of openness and safety.”