DeepSeek, the Artificial Intelligence tool that shook the AI industry and was seen as an apparent Chinese answer to ChatGPT, came under the microscope as some governments and ministries banned the AI tool. Most of these countries which banned the use of this tool cited the risk of data transmission or data collection leading to security risks.
Security researchers and experts said that the web login page of DeepSeek’s chatbot contains heavily obfuscated computer script that when deciphered shows connections to computer infrastructure owned by China Mobile, a state-owned telecommunications company.
In its privacy policy, DeepSeek acknowledged storing data on servers inside the People’s Republic of China. But it’s chatbot appears more directly tied to the Chinese state than previously known through the link revealed by researchers to China Mobile.
