Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state
Summary
Experts are warning against sharing sensitive data with DeepSeek, a Chinese AI app that has become the most downloaded free app in the US and UK.
Concerns include potential Chinese government data access, alignment with Chinese state narratives (e.g., censoring topics like Tiananmen Square), and user data exploitation.
DeepSeek stores user data on servers in China, governed by laws requiring compliance with national intelligence efforts.
While praised for its affordability and innovation, critics urge caution, citing risks of surveillance, disinformation, and privacy breaches.
The article mentions in passing that DeepSeek is open source, but completely fails to mention why that's important and makes regional censorship irrelevant. The model is perfectly able to answer your questions about Tank Man or Xinjiang as long as you run it on a server outside China. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
Let me guess the expert... sam altman?
Lmao
Only share sensitive information with US companies please. 😉
You can literally run it offline, unlike chatgpt.
You have 16 NVidia H100's?
Shut up
Yeah, no shit.