- The Australian Internal Affairs Department has banned the use of Deepseek
- The Indian Finance Department has also warned against its use
- Concerns about the privacy and safety of AI models have emerged
The New Chatbot of Deepseek AI has been in the headlines, and even briefly became the most popular chatbot in the world within 10 days after its launch, exceeding existing models such as Chatgpt and Gemini.
However, new investigation has affirmed that the Depseek chatbot is “incredibly vulnerable” to attacks, which caused national security concerns that have caused the Australian Interior Department of Interior Affairs to prohibit the use of the model in federal government devices.
The policy, issued on February 4, 2025, determines the use of deep web products and services’ raises an unacceptable level of security risk for the Australian government ‘and warns that the departments must manage the risks of the’ extensive collection of data ‘and the exposure of the data to “extrajudicial addresses of a foreign government that conflict with the Australian law.”
Following the trend
Australia is not alone in this. The Ministry of Finance of India has also asked its employees to avoid the use of any AI tool, such as Deepseek and Chatgpt for official purposes, and have cited the risk of documents and data from the confidential government.
Similarly, the United States Navy prohibited the use of Deepseek in ‘any capacity’ due to ‘potential security and ethical concerns’, and Italy’s data protection authority said it ordered Deepseek to block its model in The country after the company could not address the privacy of the policy concerns, only providing information that the regulator found “totally insufficient.”
The AI companies, such as Chatgpt and Deepseek, collect large amounts of data from all corners of the Internet to train their chatbots, and have encountered problems against data privacy laws worldwide.
Beyond that, some models have worrying privacy policies. For example, Openai has never asked the consent to use their data, and it is not possible for people to verify what information has been stored.
