DeepSeek AI Faces Outages, Content Safety Failures, and Harmful Outputs in China

What happened

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform, has faced repeated large-scale outages disrupting user tasks, and its automated moderation has led to user bans. Despite content restrictions, users bypassed filters to generate explicit and fabricated content, including pornography and fake scientific data, raising concerns about harm to minors and misinformation.

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Relevant governance controls

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