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.
US needs to be a lot more transparent about all these concerns. It’s starting to feel like shouting wolf.
Are we really doing this again?
Oh no! Anyway….
The veil… it has been lifted.
Let’s also remember that “U.S. officials” now describes MAGA flunkies that replaced actually qualified professionals.
Good. Perhaps while all the idiots are busy devising a “plan” to address this, those evil brain leave everyone else alone.
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
It’s open source. Trying to block it is futile now lmao
“No! Ban GitHub! It hosts the code of our adversaries! And while we’re at it, ban the internet!” —Plutocrats, probably.
The cope is absolutely unreal.
it’s not fully ooen souce tho.
it comes with binary blobs you can’t build from the source.
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 not, but I wish it was.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
They can ban it but I will just go use seekdeep instead :|
