Deepseek would collect user data to form an AI model, says that the South Korean espionage agency
The South Korea Intelligence Agency has raised concerns about the application of Chinese AI Deepseek, accusing it of “excessively” personal data to bring together and use all entry data for its ends of ends training.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has questioned processing by applying requests for information related to national pride. Last week, the NIS published an official opinion on government organizations, advising them to implement security measures concerning the AI application.
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According to a statement published on Sunday, the NIS stressed that, unlike other generative AI platforms, Deepseek allows the transfer of chat recordings and has a functionality that collects keyboard entry models capable of identifying Users, while contacting servers related to Chinese companies, such as Volceapplog.com.
In light of the apprehensions of security, several ministries of the South Korean government limited access to the application, following similar measures taken by Australia and Taiwan.
The NIS has also indicated that Deepseek grants advertisers unlimited access to user data and stores South Korean user information on Chinese servers. Under Chinese law, the Chinese government could request access to this data, the agency noted.
In addition, the NIS observed that Deepseek has provided variable responses to sensitive requests as a function of the language used. For example, when he was asked for the origin of Kimchi – a traditional Korean fermean dish – the application identified him as a Korean dish in Korean but said he was from China when the question was asked in Chinese.
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This gap was confirmed by Reuters. Kimchi’s origin was a controversial problem between South Koreans and Chinese social media users in recent years. In addition, Deepseek has faced allegations of censorship of responses to politically sensitive subjects, such as the 1989 Tiananmen square incident, which prompted the application to suggest changing the subject by sentences like ” Let’s talk about something else “.
