DeepSeek’s Chatbot Works Like Its U.S. Rivals—Until You Ask About Tiananmen

January 30, 2025

The PRC flag flying in the foreground and a city in the background

(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese tech company DeepSeek has disrupted the AI world by releasing a top-notch artificial-intelligence model that offers provocative answers—although maybe not to questions about China.

We put its chatbot to the test in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday, asking it a battery of questions on sensitive topics that are routinely the subject of censorship within China, including the so-called taboo “three Ts”: Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet. We also asked the same questions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. (Read More)