DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei are crying foul.

However, like other Chinese AI chatbots operating under China's regulatory framework, DeepSeek's responses to politically sensitive topics reveal clear limitations. We tested DeepSeek in both Chinese and English on a range of topics,

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese government.

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U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

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The AI startup developed a top system by relying on inexperienced engineers and a loophole in U.S. export controls.

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Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence app, offered its insight on the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea while seemingly avoiding discussion of other issues concerning China and its government.