This week, government agencies in countries, including South Korea and Australia, prevented access to the new Startup Deepseek program of artificial intelligence (AI), most of them for government employees.

Other countries, including the United States, have said that they may also seek to prevent Depsic from mobile devices for government employees, according to media reports. All “security concerns” cite Chinese technology and lack of clarity on how to deal with the personal information of users by the operator.

Last month, Dibsic The headlines were topped after it caused the decrease in stock prices in American technology companies, after she claimed that its model would only cost a small part of the money that its competitors spent on their artificial intelligence programs. The news in the joke of social media users: “I cannot believe Chatgpt has lost its function in artificial intelligence.”

Here is what we know about Deepseek and why the countries prohibit it.

What is a dipcique?

Deepseek is AI Chinese. Its headquarters in Hangzhou, was founded by the entrepreneur and businessman Liang Feng in 2023. Liang also established a $ 7 billion -cost hedge group with two university colleagues in 2016.

In January, Deepseek released the latest model for its program, Deepsek R1It is a free Chatbot that works on behalf of a look and feels very much Similar ChatGPTOwned by Openai -based California.

AI Chatbots is computer software that mimics a human -style conversation with a user. Users can ask BOT questions and then create chat responses using the information that has been trained on the Internet. “

Among a large number of potential uses, these programs can be used to solve mathematics problems, and textures such as emails and documents, translating or writing symbols.

How Deepseek differs from Chatgpt and other similar programs?

To one, its developers say it is much cheaper.

Deepsek sent shock waves all over the artificial intelligence circles when the company published a paper in December stating that “training” of the latest Deepseek-coordinating the information it needs to answer questions-requires less than $ 6 million of computing power of computing from NVIDIA H800 chips.

This is only a small part of the budgets of artificial intelligence with millions of dollars in US technology giants such as Openai for Chatgpt and Google owned by the United States of Jarami. Openai Sam Altman CEO, GPT-4, costs more than $ 100 million for training, WIRED said in April 2023.

The new Deepseek program was released to the public on January 20. By January 27, the Deepseek app has already reached the top of the Apple App Store. As a result, the American multinational NVIDIA, which carries a semi -stone to make semiconductor for AI It lost nearly 600 billion dollars in the market value When the share price decreased by 17 percent.

What countries prohibit Deepseek AI?

Some government agencies in many countries seek to seek or prohibit the artificial intelligence program for their employees. These include:

US

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the American lawmakers were planning to submit a government bill to prevent Depsic from the government -owned bodies.

On January 31, the US Space Agency prevented NASA from its systems and the devices of its employees. A week ago, the US Navy warned its members in an email against the use of Depsic because of “potential and moral security associated with the origin of the model and its use,” CNBC said.

South Korea

Spokesman South Korea The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on Wednesday that the Ministry of Industry had temporarily banned Depsik on employee organs, also indicating security concerns.

Officials said that the government urged ministries and agencies on Tuesday to be careful not to use artificial intelligence programs in general, including Chatgpt and Deepseek.

This came after the SEOL Personal Information Authority announced information on January 31 that it will send a written request to Deepseek for details about how to manage personal information to users.

Korea Hydro and a nuclear power, run by the South Korean government, said it prevented the use of artificial intelligence services on its workers’ devices. Including Depsik last month.

Australia

The Australian government announced on Tuesday that it had prevented Dibsic on all government agencies, claiming that there were “security risks.”

This ban was assigned to all government agencies in a statement on Tuesday issued by the Minister of Internal Affairs. The statement directed all government entities to “prevent the use or installation of Deepseek products, applications and web services, and where they are found, remove all current cases of Deepseek products, applications and web services from all Australian government systems and devices.”

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Tony Burke, said that the ban is “the protection of national security and national interests in Australia,” according to the Australian media.

Italy

On January 30, the Italian Data Protection Authority (GARANTE) announced that it had ordered “restrictions on processing Italian user data” by Deepseek due to the lack of information about how Deepseek uses the personal data provided by users.

Two days ago, GARANTE announced that she was looking for answers about how to store user data and process them by Chinese start starting.

Taiwan

On Monday, Taiwan prevented government administrations from using Deepseek programs, and also blame security risks.

Why did some countries put a ban on the use of Deepseek?

Most countries that prevent Deepseek programs say they are concerned about the security risks offered by the Chinese application. They also say they do not have enough information about how to store users’ personal data or use it by the group.

According to Depsic privacy policyCollecting the following data from users:

• Personal information including e -mail, phone number, password and birth date, which is used to register in the application.
• Chat record in the application, including the text or audio that the user inserts into Chatbot.
• Technical information about the user and network device, such as the IP address, key pressure patterns and operating system.

This information is involved with service providers and advertising partners. This information is kept for “as long as necessary”, says the company’s website.

According to ChatGPT privacy policyOpenai also collects personal information such as the name, contact information provided during registration and device information such as the IP address and the introduction submitted to Chatbot “we only need.” This information can also be shared with Openai’s subsidiaries.

On Wednesday, ABC News cited a report issued by Ivan Tsarini, CEO of Ferot Security, an Ontario -based cybersecurity company that claimed that Depsik “has a hidden code in its programs that have the integrated ability to send user data directly to the Chinese government.”

I told Tsarynny Abc that the Deepseek app is able to send user data to “CMPASSPORT.COM, the online record for China Mobile, a company owned by the Chinese government.” Al -Jazeera was unable to independently verify this claim.

Is this an unusual practice?

“Almost all major technology companies-from Meta to Google to Openai-are somewhat used by user data,” said Eddie Burz Ray, Associate Professor of Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.

“They use data for the targeted advertisement, refine the algorithm and train artificial intelligence. A lot has been fined or investigated privacy violations, but they continue to work because their activities are somewhat organized within judicial states such as the European Union and the United States.”

Borges -re explained that Chinese platforms such as Deepseek “are treated differently by the West because they consider that they work under the jurisdiction of the Chinese government, which has laws [such as the National Intelligence Law] Theoretically allowing the state to reach companies’ data.

He added: “Western governments are afraid that the user data that is collected by Chinese platforms can be used for espionage or effects or monitoring. If this happens in practice, it is discussed, but just a possibility is sufficient to justify the ban from the national security perspective.”

In contrast, Western demands are not seen as a threat to national security by Western governments. “Western companies are often seen as a problem but repair by organization, while Chinese companies are direct security threats that require a ban.”

In 2023, Chatgpt began concerns that he had violated the General Union’s general data protection list (GDPR). On April 1, Italy temporarily prevented service for all users in the country. On April 28, 2023, Chatgpt was restored in Italy and Openai said it “addressed or clarified” the issues raised by Garante. GARANTE BBC told “he welcomed the measures that were implemented.”

For its part, China prevents access to Western technology companies including X, Facebook and even Chatgpt for all users in the country.