Warning – Deepseek is a Chinese security nightmare that has become reality

The timing is really everything. A week from Tiktok’s short -term ban On the fears of the Chinese harvest of American data, despite the coherent denials of the platform and its parent that it does anything, here is another application that admits doing exactly that. And if you still think Tiktok is bad – it’s much worse.

Deepseek shocked the United States in many ways almost overnight. Apparently Beat the main platforms of generative AI With an approach led by software that brought a hammer to their business plans. Apparently flagrant running Censorship adapted to China In sight, not via a subtle algorithm that no one sees. And apparently take concerns about confidentiality and AI data risks at a whole new level.

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Deepseek does not hide any of this – far from it. “The personal information that we collect can be stored on a server located outside the country where you live”, ” He says to users. “We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China.” As for what this information could be – everything.

“We collect your information in three ways: information that you provide, automatically collected information and information from other sources.” And this includes personal data when you configure your account, everything you enter its platform, including “your text or audio entry, invite, downloaded files, comments, cat history or any other content you provide to our model and services. “

But there is more. “We automatically collect certain information at home,” explains Deepseek, “including internet information or other network activities such as your IP address, unique devices identifiers and cookies … We collect certain information on devices and Network connections … This information includes your device model, operating system, typing models or rhythms, IP address and system language … where you connect from several devices, we use information such as your peripheral ID and Your user ID to identify your activity on devices to provide you with a transparent connection experience and safety purposes.

These data are much more powerful than anything that is shared or harvested by Tiktok – whatever the reality of the place where this data is sent. The majority is not necessary for the purposes of the platform. And once let’s go, let’s go. Just ask yourself what a powerful AI engine in hands could do with all of this personally identifiable data.

None of this information is stored in the United States Everything goes to China. The same China, including controversial national security laws with their obligation to Chinese companies to share all data with government agencies, have forged so much political tiktok around the world. I questioned Deepseek about their membership of these laws with the data they collect. Nothing of them yet.

This month, Harmonic security warned the enormous corporate risk of generative AI platforms, via prompts and user downloads. And they had nothing as obviously at risk as Deepseek when they compiled their report.

Deepseek is in a way an American invention. Funded by a Chinese investment company, he decided to provide chatgpt results without access to costly material expenditure chatgpt levels, taking into account American restrictions. This means innovation and bypass solutions. And whatever the realities behind the scenes, given the technological sector strongly linked and subsidized by the state of China, the results are extraordinary. Chinese industry has launched an AI platform beating in the United States in the United States regardless of state support. Maybe. But it is strategic in a way that Tiktok has never been.

“The best companies in the world generally form their chatbots with superordinators who use up to 16,000 or more tokens”, ” The New York Times explain. “Deepseek engineers said they only needed around 2,000 Nvidia chips … Deepseek’s research document had raised questions about whether large American companies could maintain a major lead In AI, many experts believe that AI technology will become a commodity, many companies selling roughly the same product. ”

And now, with these American stocks in shock from a surprise success Deepseek, and the Chinese application at the top of the Apple App Store, we are firmly on the thin ice. There are all kinds of implications here. IA security in a world where users cannot help themselves but venture into what is the most recent and most brilliant. A complete lack of respect for security and confidentiality when using the IA cat, as was obvious before that. And a finger at the time of the dam for Chinese viral applications which will not have remained by a prohibition of Tiktok or a change of property and clearly need something larger to be kept remotely.

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In the meantime … In the meantime, if you really have to use the last viral toy of China, keep in mind where all this data goes and stay. Be very Beware of what you share, whether your own personal information or – worse – your employer.