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DeepSeek has taken over the AI market this month, which has got OpenAI’s Sam Altman talking but does this AI model have any concerns for you?
DeepSeek from China has got the world talking but there could be some concerns too
ChatGPT is past now, DeepSeek R1 is the talk of the AI town, and this China-based AI chatbot promises better performance and cheaper price, while being free for everyone. However, any tech product to come out from China comes with a big question mark around its policies and possible data sharing model.
And those concerns get further enhanced when you take a closer look at the privacy policy of DeepSeek and how its obvious Chinese origins could pose issues for people who are using the free AI chatbot on their phone, web and desktop.
DeepSeek AI From China, Your Data At Risk?
The first thing you notice on the DeepSeek privacy policy page is their registered office in China. Then you read through the kind of information that the AI chatbot collects from its users, and that’s where the red flag starts buzzing loud.
DeepSeek collects profile data of its users which includes date of birth, username, telephone number and even password. It can even collect your text or audio input, chat history that is available through the R1 or any other DeepSeek model.
But this isn’t the most important concern, what follows this is the bigger danger. “The personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China,” this is what the privacy policy of DeepSeek clearly states on its website, and it is public.
Right on cue, folks from OpenAI have been quick to point out these concerns and how people in the US are allegedly giving away their data to the Chinese servers for free access to the AI model, which is DeepSeek in this case.
The US regime will be surely alarmed by the popularity of the DeepSeek AI model which is freely available for millions of users, and they don’t even realise how their data might be getting used when it is transferred out of the country.
Censorship Concerns Arise
The close links to China has also raised possible censorship concerns about DeepSeek AI which has been reportedly referenced through some China related queries in multiple reports. DeepSeek AI has to abide by the rules in China, because that’s where it operates from, and having content linked to the region will be getting close attention and most likely scrapped for people using the AI chatbot in other countries.
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