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Ia Chinese has already been banned in South Korea and European countries, at a time when technology failed tests and governments warn of “safety risks.”
South Korea Defense and Trade Ministries announced today the DeepSeek blockade on the two departments, whileThe await explanations of startup Chinese about the treatment given to users’ information.
The regulatory entity responsible for the protection of personal data announced last week that he asked DeepSeek to explain the processing of information provided by users, following the example of other countries, such as France and Ireland.
“The measures of Deepseek blockade They were specifically implemented for military computers linked to the internet, ”the Ministry of Defense told France-Presse news agency (AFP).
Already the Ministry of Commerce stated that access to DeepSeek was also temporarily restricted in all computers of the government department.
“We temporarily blocked DeepSeek because it did not respond to the committee’s investigation for personal information protection,” an AFP official of the Ministry of Commerce told AFP.
Remembering is that South Korean technological giants, including Samsung Electronics and rival SK Hynix, are the main suppliers of microprocessors Advanced used in DeepSek’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) servers.
These prohibitions arise at a time when the application of Chumbed in various tests Performed by experts, which considered their response system “highly biased”. South Korea accuses the technology of providing “totally inappropriate” answers.
But South Korea was not the only country to ban the AI platform. Also Australia has already done so in all the government’s devices, claiming that therethe “safety risks”advances a. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Tony Burke, said what the goal was to “protect national security and the national interest of Australia”,.
It did, according to the Taiwana Albania (“Whose government said DeepSeek is a risk to national security”). and also Italy. According to the Italian data protection authority (Guarantee) announced that it had ordered “the limitation of the processing of data from Italian users” by DeepSek.
O Pentagon, the United States Navy and NASA They have also banned the AI service of their systems.
But users’ data storage is not new. “Virtually every major technological companies – from Google to Google and OpenAi – explore users’ data to some extent,” he explains to Al Jazeera Eddy Borges-Rey, professor na Northwestern University.
The difference is that this information is “treated differently by the West because they are seen as operating under the jurisdiction of the Chinese government, which has laws [como a Lei de Inteligência Nacional] theoreticalallow state access to corporate data“.
The US blocks Chinese Ai, butChina also blocks access to Western technological companies To all users in the country, from X and Facebook to the competitor itself, ChatgPT.
