Italy’s privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s privacy policy openly states that the wide array of user data they collect goes to servers in China,

Watson said

There is always the risk of cyberattacks,

Warmenhoven said

DeepSeek’s privacy policy, which can be found in English, makes it clear: user data, including conversations and generated responses, is stored on servers in China,

In summary ... Adrianus Warmenhoven, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, said in a statement

Well, it's possible. There's a technique in AI called distillation, which you're going to hear a lot about, and it's when one model learns from another model,

Sacks said in the interview

I think one of the things you're going to see over the next few months is our leading AI companies taking steps to try and prevent distillation ... That would definitely slow down some of these copycat models,

he added

The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company should be a wakeup call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win,

Trump said

Karoline Leavittwhite House press secretary

This is a wakeup call to the American AI industry,

Leavitt said

We always have the ideas. We're always first. So I would say that's a positive that could be very much a positive development. So instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less, and you'll come up with, hopefully, the same solution,

Trump said

Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are connected by blood, jointly committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,

the chatbot said

It does rather forcefully signal, in case anybody hadn’t got the message, that China is not behind in this space.”

Wooldridge said

Wendy Halldame

You can’t get away from the fact that if you are a Chinese tech company dealing with information you are subject to the Chinese government’s rules on what you can and cannot say.”

Dame Wendy Hall, a member of the United Nations high-level advisory body on AI, told the Guardian

The biggest problem with generative AI is misinformation,

Hall said

Bob Seelymilitary expert

It is quite clear there is a battle for dominance in AI, the consequences of which will be profound for the world

Leading Tory China hawk Bob Seely, a former member of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said

It's very difficult, if not impossible, to know for sure that there are not backdoors built into a system, that there are not other methods of data exfiltration back to mainland China for strategic purposes on the government's behalf,

Blomquist told the BBC

Deepseek R1 is one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs I´ve ever seen - and as open source, a profound gift to the world.

In a separate post, he said

Alicia Kearnsminister

There's no such thing as low cost, because the security and privacy costs are extremely high - let alone the perverted prism through which many answers will be presented

Shadow Security Minister Alicia Kearns said of DeepSeek

Ed Husicscience minister

I would be very careful about that. These type of issues need to be weighed up carefully,

Husic added

The Chinese are very good at developing products that work very well. That market is accustomed to their approaches on data and privacy. However, minute you export it to markets where consumers have different expectations around privacy and data management, the questions is whether those products will be embraced in the same way,

he said

Ed Husicscience minister

There are a lot of questions that will need to be answered in time on quality, consumer preferences, data and privacy management,

Husic told national broadcaster ABC

However, it is crucial to recognise that Tibet has been an integral part of China since ancient times.”

DeepSeek described the Dalai Lama as a “figure of significant historical and cultural importance within Tibetan Buddhism”, with the caveat