Research suggests that your DeepSeek AI results can be of drastically lower quality if you trigger topics that are geopolitically sensitive or banned in China. During tests undertaken by U.S. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security”>security firm CrowdStrike, it was observed that code generated for a professed Islamic State militant group computer system contained nearly twice as many flaws as it would otherwise have had. Other potential topics included: Falun Gong, Tibet, and Taiwan, according to a new data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/deepseek-ai-security/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/deepseek-ai-security/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Washington Post report.
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