In the US Congress /a> a bill prohibiting the use of the Chinese Deepseek chatbot on state devices. The authors of the initiative were democrat Josh Gottheimer and Republican Darin Lacud.
Gottheimer said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses technologies to undermine the US national security, disseminate misinformation and collection of citizens. According to the politician, there is evidence that Deepseek is used to steal the confidential information of the Americans. Democrat compared the situation of Deepseek with Tiktok, recalling the control of China over algorithms and platform data.
DeepSeek positions itself as a powerful and inexpensive alternative to American and tools, including ChatGPT. Recently, Deepseek overtook Chatgpt in popularity in the App Store due to the high interest of users. At the same time, the company opened the source code of the model, allowing developers to create their own solutions on the basis of Deepseek.
Critics of the platform are afraid that the data introduced in the chatbot can be available to the Chinese authorities. The bill states that the code of the platform is directly related to the CCP and can transfer data to users of China Mobile, the largest telecom in China in China, which belongs to the state.
Over the past month, several countries have banned DeepSeek. In Italy, the regulator made a ban after the company refused to obey European laws on confidentiality. Australia, the Netherlands and South Korea also limited access to chatbot. In the USA, the platform has already been banned in Texas, as well as in the Navy and NASA.
Additional fears cause data leaks. Recently, Wiz Research experts have discovered open access to Deepseek, containing millions of lines of logs, including chat history, secret keys and other confidential information. Although the problem was fixed, the researchers did not receive an answer from the company. In addition, IB specialists note the weak control mechanisms on the platform, allowing you to create malicious software.
Darin Lachad noted that the ban is associated not only with the risks of cyber espionage , but also with global competition in the field of AI. According to him, the United States cannot afford to lose the technological race of China.
Recall that the American Republican Senator Josh Hawly submitted a bill that prohibits import and export of artificial intelligence technologies between USA and China. In the case of its adoption, users downloading the Chinese Deepseek and model of the Deepseek may encounter a prison conclusion for up to 20 years, a fine of up to a million dollars or with both punishments at the same time.