Summary:
The launch of Chinese AI application DeepSeek in the U.S. has raised national security concerns among officials, lawmakers, and cybersecurity experts. The app quickly became the most downloaded on Apple’s store, disrupting Wall Street and causing a record 17% drop in Nvidia’s stock. The White House announced an investigation into the potential risks, with some lawmakers calling for stricter export controls to prevent China from leveraging U.S. technology.
Beyond economic impact, experts warn DeepSeek may pose significant data security risks, as Chinese law allows government access to company-held data. Unlike TikTok, which stores U.S. data on Oracle servers, DeepSeek operates directly from China, collecting personal user information. The app also exhibits censorship, blocking content on politically sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square. Some analysts argue that, as an open-source model, DeepSeek may not be as concerning as TikTok, but critics worry its widespread adoption could advance China’s influence through curated information control.
If it’s open source and can be hosted locally, I don’t think there are issues with national security in this case.
There is money to be lost though. Always follow the money.
Like TikTok. The national security threat is actually just fear of profit loss.
it’s not fully open source. it comes with binary blobs you can’t build from source.
What do these blobs contain?
Does the version run locally also censors output?
it’s the so called weights. the learned data after training.
they didn’t provide neither training data, nor lists of sources, so nobody can recreate it, but them.
You did something cheaper quicker and it’s more efficient it must be bad the US
Just like EV’s and battery technology. Up to 40% tarrif on some brands.
They are cheaper with more range. The range is literally only achievable through better technology and hardware.
Or using slave labour so if the US is smart it should use prisoners to build cheap EVs.
It’s true that working conditions is not the same at all in China, which also makes this possible.
Put the technology is still better, even if they acquired it cheaper than possible in the US.
National security, anti-terrorism, protecting children.
The trifecta of reasons given for abolishing freedoms
And the first two reasons are not even legitimate in theory. Nationalism is a plague destroying the planet. “Terrorism” is a fake word reserved for enemies of the state.
This is just so fun to watch.
America: “Executive order now! No US person is allowed to help the Chinese develop these technologies! We will imprison you traitor!”
China: “OK. We’ll just develop it ourselves.” DeepSeek enters the chat
America: “Fuck! National security emergency!”
NOOOOOOOOO
MYY YACHT MONEYYYYYYYY
as Chinese law allows government access to company-held data.
… Kind of exactly like how US law allows government access to company-held data?
It’s open source. Trying to block it is futile now lmao
When you’re living in the imperial core violently genociding the planet to make a quick buck, of course everything is a security concern and opportunity for the MIC to profit.
It’s better than our usa tech, sir!
Quick, mark it as a security threat!
If they’re limiting focus to the Chinese app then they’re noir wrong. If they mean the whole model then they’re full of crap.
Other then the experts, whom ever they are, the rest have no clue
Good. Perhaps while all the idiots are busy devising a “plan” to address this, those evil brain leave everyone else alone.
It’s open source so why not just take the best parts of it and run it themselves if it is such a worry instead of relying on their app and website.
it’s not fully open source. it comes with binary blobs you can’t build from the source
They’re pissy cause it being open source and more efficient means that it’s gonna be more cost effective for people to use. Which is real bad if your company overcommitted to the slop and needs to recover losses.
This.
I can easily see the national security argument for people sending queries to CCP-controlled servers (unfortunately people put all kinds of sensitive information into prompts).
Whether people like it or not, that is potentially risky. I don’t know if China has blocked OpenAI-hosted stuff, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have for similar reasons. If they haven’t, they should consider it.
But attempting any bans the model itself, even when ran locally, would be conclusive evidence that they’re doing it just to harm a competitor.
US needs to be a lot more transparent about all these concerns. It’s starting to feel like shouting wolf.
Oh no! Anyway….
Weaselly little liars.
Deepseek released the model and showed how they made it. You can run it locally. It doesn’t connect to the internet.
Lolol.
