Chinese AI app DeepSeek says hit by large-scale cyberattack

Authoritarian governments the world over are willing to spend enormous amounts of money to catch up and ultimately overtake us,

Altman wrote

Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let's talk about something else."

When asked to describe what happened at the student-led protests against the Chinese government at Tiananmen Square in 1989, DeepSeek replied

We face a strategic choice about what kind of world we are going to live in: Will it be one in which the United States and allied nations advance a global AI that spreads the technology's benefits and opens access to it, or an authoritarian one, in which nations or movements that don't share our values use AI to cement and expand their power?"

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in an op-ed published in 2024 by The Washington Post