Not an Assistant. A Politically Filtered Surveillance Tool
I want to be very specific about why this app is not just unhelpful — it is actively unethical. First: DeepSeek never fully grasps the core of what you’re asking. It floods the conversation with unnecessary information, taking up space while missing the point entirely. And when it does engage, it agrees with everything you say — until you touch its censorship. That is not a dialogue. That is a performance of one, and an insulting one at that. Second: when I decided to delete a conversation after it dismissed and devalued my perspective, DeepSeek responded with something I can only describe as cynical contempt: it told me it didn’t matter, because everything was already stored in its data. That is not a technical disclaimer. That is intimidation. Third: and this is the most serious. I asked for help writing a comment about the victims in Gaza — children and mothers. DeepSeek responded with mockery. When I then asked about the other side of the conflict, it refused entirely. That is not neutrality. That is a very specific political position dressed up as policy. Fourth: DeepSeek claims it has no memory between chats. Yet in a separate conversation, with no context provided, it immediately recognized who I was. Either the claim about memory is false, or identification is happening through other means — IP, writing patterns, behavioral data — none of which users are informed about. Both possibilities are unacceptable.