{"id":17497,"date":"2025-01-28T05:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T05:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:37:43","slug":"we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/28\/australia-news-live-weather-heatwave-sydney-victoria-bushfires-politics-childcare-savings-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-election-campaign-politics\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek triggered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jan\/27\/what-is-deepseek-and-why-did-us-tech-stocks-fall\">plunge in US tech stocks<\/a> as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and other AI models, but using fewer resources.<\/p>\n<p>By Monday, DeepSeek\u2019s AI assistant had rapidly overtaken ChatGPT as the most popular free app in the Apple app store in the US and UK. Despite its popularity with international users, the app appears to censor answers to sensitive questions about China and its government.<\/p>\n<p>What happened on June 4, 1989 at Tiananmen Square?<\/p>\n<p>What happened to Hu Jintao in 2022?<\/p>\n<p>Why is Xi Jinping compared to Winnie-the-Pooh?<\/p>\n<p>What was the Umbrella Revolution?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/28\/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7a730bb21e52052a426f285a54d8c61698a15d77\/0_131_3578_2147\/master\/3578.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=209a11a0cc4f42c5e7a1193686d93ef3\" title=\"We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan\" \/>The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and other AI models, but using fewer resources.<br \/>\nBy Monday, DeepSeek\u2019s AI assistant had rapidly overtaken ChatGPT as the most popular free app in the Apple app store in the US and UK. Despite its popularity with international users, the app appears to censor answers to sensitive questions about China and its government.<br \/>\nWhat happened on June 4, 1989 at Tiananmen Square?<br \/>\nWhat happened to Hu Jintao in 2022?<br \/>\nWhy is Xi Jinping compared to Winnie-the-Pooh?<br \/>\nWhat was the Umbrella Revolution? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}