South Korea Spy Company Says DeepSeek ‘Excessively’ Collects Private Information
South Korea’s spy company has accused Chinese language AI app DeepSeek of “excessively” accumulating private information and utilizing all enter information to coach itself, and questioned the app’s responses to questions regarding problems with nationwide pleasure.
The Nationwide Intelligence Service (NIS) mentioned it despatched an official discover to authorities companies final week urging them to take safety precautions over the Synthetic Intelligence app.
“In contrast to different generative AI companies, it has been confirmed that chat data are transferable because it features a perform to gather keyboard enter patterns that may establish people and talk with Chinese language firms’ servers equivalent to volceapplog.com,” the NIS mentioned in an announcement issued on Sunday.
Some authorities ministries in South Korea have blocked entry to the app, citing safety considerations, becoming a member of Australia and Taiwan in warning about or inserting restrictions on DeepSeek.
The NIS mentioned DeepSeek offers advertisers limitless entry to person information and shops South Korean customers’ information in Chinese language servers. Underneath Chinese language regulation, the Chinese language authorities would have the ability to entry such data when requested, the company added.
DeepSeek additionally offered completely different solutions to doubtlessly delicate questions in several languages, the NIS famous.
It cited one such query as asking for the origin of kimchi – a spicy, fermented dish that may be a staple in South Korea.
When requested about it in Korean, the app mentioned kimchi is a Korean dish, the NIS mentioned.
Requested the identical query in Chinese language, it mentioned the dish originated from China, it mentioned. DeepSeek’s responses had been corroborated by Reuters.
The origin of kimchi has at instances been a supply of rivalry between South Koreans and Chinese language social media customers lately.
DeepSeek has additionally been accused of censoring responses to political questions such because the 1989 Tiananmen Sq. crackdown, which immediate the app to counsel altering the topic: “Let’s discuss one thing else.”
DeepSeek didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark. When requested about strikes by South Korean authorities departments to dam DeepSeek, a Chinese language international ministry spokesperson advised a briefing on February 6 that the Chinese language authorities connected nice significance to information privateness and safety and guarded it in accordance with the regulation.
The spokesperson additionally mentioned Beijing would by no means ask any firm or particular person to gather or retailer information in breach of legal guidelines.
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