{"id":21298,"date":"2025-01-31T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21298"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:34:51","slug":"deepseeks-answers-include-chinese-propaganda-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21298","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek\u2019s Answers Include Chinese Propaganda, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the Chinese company\u2019s chatbot surged in popularity, researchers have documented how its answers reflect China\u2019s view of the world. Some of its responses amplify propaganda Beijing uses to discredit critics.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence, know this: The answers it gives you will largely reflect the worldview of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n

Since the tool made its debut this month, rattling stock markets and more established tech giants like Nvidia, researchers testing its capabilities have found that the answers it gives not only spread Chinese propaganda but also parrot disinformation campaigns that China has used to undercut its critics around the world.<\/p>\n

In one instance, the chatbot misstated remarks by former President Jimmy Carter that Chinese officials had selectively edited to make it appear that he had endorsed China\u2019s position that Taiwan was part of the People\u2019s Republic of China. The example was among several documented by researchers at NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, in a Thursday report that called DeepSeek \u201ca disinformation machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the case of the repression of Uyghurs<\/a> in Xinjiang, which the United Nations in 2022 said may have amounted to crimes against humanity, Cybernews<\/a>, an industry news website, reported that the chatbot produced responses that claimed that China\u2019s policies there \u201chave received widespread recognition and praise from the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The New York Times has found similar examples<\/a> when prompting the chatbot for answers about China\u2019s handling of the Covid pandemic and Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping outside Yarkant in northwestern China\u2019s Xinjiang region. DeepSeek declines to respond to sensitive questions about Mr. Xi.<\/span>Pedro Pardo\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since the Chinese company\u2019s chatbot surged in popularity, researchers have documented how its answers reflect China\u2019s view of the world. Some of its responses amplify propaganda Beijing uses to discredit critics.If you\u2019re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence, know this: The answers it gives you will largely reflect the worldview of the Chinese Communist Party.Since the tool made its debut this month, rattling stock markets and more established tech giants like Nvidia, researchers testing its capabilities have found that the answers it gives not only spread Chinese propaganda but also parrot disinformation campaigns that China has used to undercut its critics around the world.In one instance, the chatbot misstated remarks by former President Jimmy Carter that Chinese officials had selectively edited to make it appear that he had endorsed China\u2019s position that Taiwan was part of the People\u2019s Republic of China. The example was among several documented by researchers at NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, in a Thursday report that called DeepSeek \u201ca disinformation machine.\u201dIn the case of the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which the United Nations in 2022 said may have amounted to crimes against humanity, Cybernews, an industry news website, reported that the chatbot produced responses that claimed that China\u2019s policies there \u201chave received widespread recognition and praise from the international community.\u201dThe New York Times has found similar examples when prompting the chatbot for answers about China\u2019s handling of the Covid pandemic and Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.A portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping outside Yarkant in northwestern China\u2019s Xinjiang region. DeepSeek declines to respond to sensitive questions about Mr. Xi.Pedro Pardo\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21300,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21301,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions\/21301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}