CNBC February 2, 2025
Key Points
– Chinese generative AI DeepSeek surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the No. 1 downloaded free app last week, alarming national security experts given Chinese government requirements for domestic firms to share data with the PRC.
– While an effort to legally ban DeepSeek similar to TikTok could follow, government prohibitions were swiftly put in place, from NASA to the U.S. Navy, and from the State of Texas to Taiwan and Italy.
– Cybersecurity firms already discovered vulnerabilities in the app that allowed for data leaks, and according to one national security expert interviewed by CNBC, DeepSeek’s privacy policy “isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
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