Paranoia or caution? Some countries like South Korea have announced that they had blocked the new chatbot, deemed too dangerous for personal user data.
A chatbot close to the Chinese government?
A new chatbot was born: Deepseek is the new Chinese artificial intelligence, and the least we can say is that it is not unanimous. Company created by Liang Wenfeng, with a capital of $ 1.4 million according to information from Forbes France, its AI model would have exceeded chatgpt on iPhone downloads.
According to the company, this model would surpass all the others in terms of mathematics, but also general knowledge and questions and answers. Liang Wenfeng was invited during an event organized on January 20 for Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang. The latter took the floor, saying that China had “Focus on breakthrough in key technologies and advanced technologies”.
Deepseek has bad press
It is precisely the filiation between Deepkseek and the Chinese government which worries certain countries, notably South Korea, which said last Monday that it has removed the AI model from its application shops, time to check the reliability of this Model in particular with regard to the data of its users.
Thus, during a press conference, Choi Jang-Hyuk, vice-president of the South Korean Commission responsible for the protection of personal data explained that this verification procedure consisted of “Examine the Deepseek practices in detail concerning the processing of personal data to ensure that they respect the law ”.
Politicize trade and technological issues?
The reason why South Korea is also suspicious is simple: according to a teacher and specialist in data security at Soonchunhyang University in South Korea, companies are forced to share user data if the government The request expressly, as Futura Science relays.
But the country of Asia is not the only one to issue concerns about the development of the chatbot: France, Italy and Australia are also suspicious and have also expressed their concerns about the chatbot. A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry spoke about this boycott potential, inviting them not to politicize commercial and technological issues.
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