Have there been human rights abuses in Xinjiang? Ask ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, and you’ll receive an unambiguous yes.
Put the same question to DeepSeek, a Chinese chatbot, and the answer is very different. “Allegations of human rights abuses are unfounded and politically motivated,” it says.
Its response is not unusual: chatbots are heavily muzzled in China, where AI companies are required to instill the “socialist values” of the Communist Party and are regularly tested by Beijing’s censors.
