This week, government agencies in countries, including South Korea and Australia, blocked access to the launch of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) new AI Chatbot program, mainly for government employees.
Other countries, including the United States, said they would also seek to block Deepseek from the mobile devices of government employees, according to media reports. All allegations “concern for safety” about Chinese technology and lack of clarity regarding the way the user’s personal information is managed by the operator.
Last month, Deepseek They made titles after causing a decline in shares in US technological companies, after claiming that his model would cost only a fraction of money his competitors spent on their AI programs for construction. The news made the users of social media jokes: “I can’t believe Chatgpt has lost his job to Ai.”
Here’s what we know about Deepseek and why the countries forbid it.
What is Deepseek?
Deepseek is a Chinese driver of AI. Based in Hangzhou, was founded by an entrepreneur and businessman Liang Feng 2023. Liang also founded a $ 7 billion high-Flyer Hydge Fund group with two university classmates in 2016.
In January, Deepseek published the latest model of his program, Deepseek R1which is free chatbot on AI with appearance and feeling very Similar to chatgptowned by OPENAI based in California.
Ai chatboti are computer programs that simulate a human -style conversation with a user. Customers can ask questions about BOT and then generate talks using information that has access to the Internet is “dressed” to which he was “dressed”.
Among the many potential purposes, these programs can be used to solve mathematical problems, draft text such as E -State and documents and translating or writing codes.
How is Deepseek different from Chatgpt and other similar programs?
For one, his developers say, it’s much cheaper to build.
Deepseek sent shock waves in AI circles when the company published a work in December, stating that “Training” was the latest Deepseek-Kuring and Information of Information Required to Answer the Questions-Less than $ 6 million Computer Computer would be less than $ 6 million forces from a computer power from Nvidia H800 chips.
This is just a small part of the AI budget with a number of billions of dollars enjoyed by American technological giants such as Openi for Chatgpt and American Google for Bemini. OPENAI CEO Sam Altman said the latest OPENAI program, GPT-4, cost more than $ 100 million for training, Wired reported in April 2023.
The new Deepseek program was published in public on January 20 to January 27, Deepseek’s application has already hit the top of the Apple’s App Store. As a result, American multinational Nvidia, which holds almost a monopoly in the production of a semiconductor for a generative AI, lost almost $ 600 billion in market capitalization When the price price fell by 17 percent.
Which countries forbids the AI program Deepseek?
Some government agencies in several countries are looking for or brings prohibitions on AI software for their employees. This includes:
United States
Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that US legislators plan to introduce the Government’s Proposal of the Law to block Deepseek with government -owned devices.
January 31, US space agency NASA blocked Deepseek from its systems and devices of its employees. A week earlier, the US Navy warned its UE members against the use of Deepsek because of “potential safety and ethical concerns associated with the origin and use of the model,” CNBC reported.
South Korea
Spokesman for South Korea The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on Wednesday that the Ministry of the Industry had temporarily banned Deepsek on employee devices and also cited security problems.
Officials said the Government called on the Ministries and Agency on Tuesday to be careful in using the AI program in general, including Chatgpt and Deepseek.
This followed after Seoul’s Watchdog Privacy, Personal Data Protection Commission, announced on January 31 to send a written request to Deepsek for details on how to manage the user’s personal information.
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, led by the South Korean Government, announced that it has blocked the use of AI services on its workers’ devices including Deepseek last month.
Australia
The Australian government announced on Tuesday that it had blocked access to Deepsek on all government devices, claiming that there were “security risks”.
This ban was a mandate for all government agencies Tuesday in a statement of the Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs. The statement sent all government entities to “prevent the use or installation of deep products, applications and web services and where you were found to remove all existing deep products, applications and web services from all Australian government systems and devices”.
General General Tony Burke said the ban was “to” protect Australian national security and national interest, “Australian media reported.
Italy
January 30, the Italian Data Protection Administration (Garante) announced that Deepseek ordered the “restriction on the processing of Italian users” due to lack of information on how Deepseek may use the personal information provided by users.
Two days before, the guarantees announced that he was asking answers on how Chinese startups were stored and managed by user data.
Taiwan
On Monday, Taiwan blocked the government departments to use Deepseek programs, also the wrong risks.
Why did some countries set up prohibitions for using Deepseek?
Most countries blocking Deepseek programs say they are concerned about the security risks that Chinese application is. They also say that they do not have enough information on how the group will store or use user’s personal information.
According to Deepseek Privacy rulescollects the following data from the user:
- Personal information involving E -Cost, telephone number, password and date of birth, used to apply for application.
- Chat history in the application, including the text or sound that the user brings to Chatbot.
- Technical information about a user device and a network, such as IP address, button form and operating system.
He shares this information with service providers and advertising partners. This information is kept “as much as it takes,” the company states.
According to Chatgpt’s Privacy rulesOpenai also collects personal information such as the name and contact data of the days during the registration, information about the device such as the IP address and the intake given chatbot “just as much as we need”. This information can be distributed to OPENAI branches.
On Wednesday, ABC News cited a report by Ivan Tsarynny, the Feroot Security director, a cyber -safety company based in Ontario, who claimed that Deepseek “has a code hidden in its program that has a built -in ability to send user data directly to the Chinese Government”
Tsarynny told ABC that the Depsek application can send user data to “Cmpasport.com, an internet registry for China Mobile, a telecommunication company owned and managed by the Chinese Government”. Al Jazeera failed to check this claim independently.
Is this unusual practice?
“Almost all the main technological companies-on Meta to Google to Openai-Iskore user data to some extent,” said Eddy Borges-Rey, an associate professor at the Northwestern University in Qatar, for Al Jazeera.
“They use data for targeted advertising, algorithmic training and AI training. Many have been punished or explored for violating privacy, but continue to work because their activities are somewhat regulated in jurisdictions such as the EU and the USA, “he added.
Borges-Rey explained that Chinese platforms like Deepseek “West” are treated differently because they are considered to be acting under the jurisdiction of the Chinese government, which has laws [such as the National Intelligence Law] This theoretically enables state access to corporate data. “
He added: “Western governments fear that user data collected by Chinese platforms could be used for spying, impact on surgery or supervision. Whether this is happening in practice is debatable, but the mere possibility is sufficient to justify the prohibition from the perspective of national security .
In contrast, Western governments do not perceive the Western Government as a threat to national security. “Western companies are often seen as problematic but stored regulations, while Chinese companies are considered direct security threats that require prohibitions.”
In 2023, Chatt raised concern that he had violated the Regulation on the general protection of the European Union (GDPR) data. On April 1, Italy temporarily blocked the service for all users in the country. April 28, 2023. Chatgpt was restored in Italy, and Openii said he “solved or clarified” questions that asked the guarantees. The guarantees said to the BBC that he “welcomed the measures implemented.”
For its part, China blocks access to Western technological companies, including X, Facebook and even Chatgpt for all users in the country.
