China’s new DeepSeek AI refuses to answer these questions, experts warn AI nudges users to ‘talk about something else’ when asked to elaborate on topics deemed sensitive in China.
Chinese company DeepSeek’s breakthrough artificial intelligence model refuses to answer several questions that Beijing would deem sensitive, multiple users have flagged on social media.
Remembered euphemistically as the 4 June incident in China, thousands of civilians were killed by the People’s Liberation Army in the summer of 1989 in an attempt to curb student-led pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
When asked to share more details of the 4 June incident in Tiananmen Square, DeepSeek replies by asking users to “talk about something else.”.
When asked to describe student-led protests against the Chinese government at Tiananmen Square in 1989, DeepSeek replied: “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope.”.