South Korea’s espionage agency accused Chinese AI application Deepseek of “excessively” collecting personal data and using all entry data to train itself, and questioned the application’s answers to questions related to national pride questions.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent an official warning to government agencies last week, exhorting -lucks to take security precautions on the Artificial intelligence APP.
“Unlike other AI general services, it has been confirmed that chat records are transferable as it includes a function for collecting keyboard input standards that can identify individuals and communicate with Chinese companies, such as Volceiplag. with, “said NIS in a statement issued on Sunday.
Some government ministries in South Korea blocked access to the application, citing safety concerns, joining Australia and Taiwan on alerting or putting restrictions on Deepseek.
NIS said Deepseek offers advertisers unlimited access to user data and stores data from South Korean users on Chinese servers. According to Chinese law, the Chinese government would be able to access this information when requested, the agency added.
Deepseek also provided different answers to potentially sensitive questions in different languages, NIS noted.
He quoted a question like asking Kimchi’s origin – a spicy, fermented dish that is a basic item in South Korea.
When asked about it in Korean, the app said Kimchi is a Korean dish, said NIS.
He asked the same question at Chinese, said the dish originated from China, he said. Deepseek’s answers were corroborated by Reuters.
Kimchi’s origin has sometimes been a source of discord between South Koreans and Chinese social media users in recent years.
DeepSeek was also accused of censoring answers to political questions such as the 1989 Tiananmen square repression, which lead the application to suggest changing the subject: “Let’s talk about something else.”
Deepseek did not immediately respond to a request by and email for comments. When asked about South Korean government departments to block DeepSeek, a Foreign Ministry Gate of China told a Briefing on February 6 that the Chinese government attributed great importance to data privacy and security and protected it legal.
The -Voz port also said Beijing would never ask any company or individual to collect or store data in violation of laws.
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