Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has made a huge splash with its ChatGPT competitor, claiming it developed a similarly-performing AI assistant at a fraction of the cost. It’s a serious contender — at least in the eyes of investors, with AI chipmaker Nvidia’s shares sliding by around 15 percent Monday morning. But the app also has some significant shortcomings. Like other Chinese AI models, DeepSeek is beholden to the rules of state censors, as Bloomberg reports, refusing to directly address sensitive topics like the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre or China-Taiwan relations. Users on Reddit found that when asked about a “famous picture” of a “man with grocery bags in front of tanks,” the large language model starts to oblige, producing text about the world-famous “Tank Man” photograph taken on the day of the Tiananmen Square protests. But moments later, the text disappears and is replaced with a generic error message, as seen in a screen recording shared by one Reddit user, seemingly showing how the app is (however sloppily) abiding by Chinese censorship rules. “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope,” the message reads. “Let’s talk about something else.” As another user on Reddit found, even asking it more broadly about criticisms of the Chinese government, it had an intriguing answer. “Sorry, I’m not sure how to approach this type of question yet,” it wrote. “Let’s chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!” The user got the same response when they included the name of Chinese president Xi Jinping in their query….DeepSeek Has a Very Interesting Answer About the Tiananmen Square Massacre