DeepSeek’s AI Storing User Data on Chinese Servers
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI research lab that rattled U.S. markets Monday through claims that its latest model uses less advanced computer chips while still performing comparatively with OpenAI, likely sends more data to China than TikTok, according to a new report.
“It shouldn’t take a panic over Chinese AI to remind people that most companies in the business set the terms for how they use your private data,” according to John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, reports Wired on Tuesday. “When you use their services, you’re doing work for them, not the other way around.”
Wired reports that its review of the DeepSeek website’s underlying activity shows the company is sending data to Chinese tech giant Baidu, likely for web analytics, and to Voices, a Chinese internet infrastructure company.
DeepSeek has some AI models, that can be downloaded and used locally on a laptop, but most people are expected to use iOS or Android apps, or a web chat interface to use its services.
But some users are reporting that DeepSeek censors content critical of China or its policies. Further, the AI platform collects information including all of a user’s chat messages and sends it back to China, where it is stored “in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China,” according to DeepSeek’s English-language privacy policies.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/deepseek-china-ai/2025/01/28/id/1196804/
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