China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek has sparked controversy for its refusal to discuss sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square massacre and territorial disputes. Its advanced capabilities, attributed to possible reverse-engineering of US AI models,

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini but at a fraction of the cost.

In the post, the user shared a screenshot of a conversation with the DeepSeek chatbot. When asked about Arunachal Pradesh, the northeastern state of India, the chatbot refused to respond directly. The user stated,