- Chatbot Depseek is prohibited for Microsoft employees
- Safety and propaganda concerns cited by Microsoft
- Government agencies have also prohibited the model
At a Senate audience that is directed to the capabilities of the US, the vice president and president of Microsoft Brad Smith has revealed that the company’s employees cannot use the Deepseek application.
Citing the security of the data and the concerns of propaganda, Smith said that Microsoft does not offer deep UNSEEK in its application store, arguing that there is a risk that the user data will be stored in China and that Deepseek’s responses to user consultations could be influenced by the “Chinese propaganda.”
Multiple government agencies have also prohibited the controversial model of AI, including the United States Department of Commerce and the US Navy, and the “Government Devices Law” could not see that this expanded even more.
Security risks
The AI models such as Deepseek and Chatgpt have been criticized for being a privacy nightmare, especially given the information that users feed the chatbots, and the personal data that the models collect and store.
The United States Congress specifically described Deepseek as a “deep threat” for national security and privacy, collecting large amounts of data that include “chat history, device details and even the way in which a person types.”
“The closest inspection reveals that the application diverts the data of the People’s Republic of China (RPC), creates security vulnerabilities for its users and is based on a model that censures and manipulates the information in accordance with the Chinese law,” described the Congress report.
The Deepseek privacy policy confirms that it stores data on Chinese servers, and the data is subject to Chinese law, which guarantees cooperation with Chinese intelligence agencies.
The model also largely censures issues sensitive to China.
The chatbot also suffered significant data violation, which presented more than one million records and fed concerns about AI models and user information management and protection.
Through Techcrunch
