The DeepSeek ChatBot app, developed by China this week, has been downloaded much more than the Apple App Store than ChatGpt in Open AI, and has wiped billions of dollars from the world’s high -tech markets.
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Many Americans have discovered the AI search power of Deepseek, a revolutionary Chinese generation AI application that has increased to the No. 1 downloaded status in Apple’s App Store last week. However, in the era of competition and distrust of the United States and China, the entities from NASA to the US Navy and Taiwanese governments are personal to do in the United States to ban the use of Deepseek within a few days. Is it wise to start playing with search inquiries?
Deepseek’s sudden rise -a quick timeline and a budget that is said to be much lower than before -the AI experts were surprised, but skepticism on the assertion remains. In some estimates, Chinese companies have suggested costly hundreds of dollars. Privacy defenders are also surprised, and their concerns are not based on AI development costs. They have already warned that Americans are already at risk of themselves and their privacy.
The amount of data and information that a bad actor in China can harvest from Deepseek is 20 times worse than the one that can be collected from Google Search, so DewardDric McNeal, Managing Director and Senior Policy Analyst of Risk Management Company LongView Global, says. Masu. Chinese strategy.
“It’s a mountain with rich intelligence,” said McNeal, who studied the details of the data sharing requirements of the Chinese government in Japan.
He said he had obvious risks, such as personal banks and health information that could be stolen, and the famous cyber security companies have already reported the vulnerability of Deepseek. Deepseek itself reported last week that it was hit by a big cyber attack.
However, MCNEAL is worried about the “whole picture” competition between nations.
“I want you to talk about something wider than narrow data. I often don’t talk about the degree of mental maps by understanding queries,” said McNeal.
For example, the Chinese Intelligence report can learn about various American industries and divide among ordinary people using Deepseek’s wider query patterns.
“I have logged in to DeepSeek, so the world will not end tomorrow,” McNeal said, but it didn’t mean that there was no risk. One of the Open Source Approach of AI is that China can access the supply chain based in the United States at the industry level, learn what companies are doing and compete with them. 。 “National security experts are thinking about it in these words,” said McNeal.
Matt Pearl, a special advisor to the Deputy National Security Advisor of the Biden administration’s National Security Council, and is now a special advisor to the Strategic International Research Center Strategic Program Director, is a privacy policy of Deep Shek. He stated that it means managing the collected ones. But it should lead an alarm.
“DeepSeek’s privacy policy is not worthwhile,” Pearl said. Deepseek is exposed to PRC law, and all of the apps entered in the app are fair games. According to Pearl, through key stroke patterns, all devices, information collected from advertisers, and DeepSeek can also use cameras and microphones.
“If the app can do it technically and that PRC decides that they want to do, it will bring danger,” Pearl said.
However, the threat that most people maintain him at night is related to cyber security and a large amount of malware injection. “It is difficult to emphasize all the potential ways to be used. Theoretically, it can be performed by a single update of the app,” he said.
The HIGH FLYER staff, a hedge fund for supporting China who created DeepSeek, did not respond to comments.
Chatgpt is still much ahead of Deepseek
Despite the major impact on markets and major AI companies, including NVIDIA, Deepseek is on a long way to catch up with ChatGpt, which has been growing terrible war. Openai, a market news cycle, is said to be in consultation in a $ 40 billion funding round.
According to the online analysis platform Semrush, DeepSeek is much more delayed to consumer activity, and the OpenAi app has maintained average number of visitors per day. However, Chatgpt has experienced recent decline in traffic. On October 1, 2024, there were 22.1 million visitors, but Semrush decreased to 14.9 million by January 19. At the same time, even before it became a major national news article, DeepSeek’s online footprint was growing -to 71.2k by January 19, 2024 to 71.2k by January 19, the United States. (Tank one week ago due to the stock market).
Joe Jones, a research and insight of the International Privacy Specialist Association, a neutral non -profit organization that promotes privacy and AI governance, has the potential for destructive people like DeepSeek to make the organization more difficult. I say there is.
“It is difficult for people to do that job if they are growing complicated, diverse and often nervous laws. Also covered with a deep seek -like technology from the left field, a good governance. I will reconsider Jones. ” The fact that the debate is being developed across borders makes it more controversial. “This is much more complicated in this turbocharged geopolitical environment,” Jones added.
Liang Wenfeng, the founder of STARTUP DEEPSEEK, will give a keynote speech at the China Private Equity Golden Best Award in Shanghai, China on August 30, 2019.
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According to Stevens Research Institute’s Director Brendan Enenglot, the challenges are not solved immediately. “AI is now a global international competition and will see a breakthrough around the world,” says English.
The open source technology approach used by Deepseek (an approach promoted by Meta) means that more Deepseek is coming. “Soon, there will be more confusion,” said English.
Consumers need to understand the impact on the data and navigate the trade -off. This tool is designed to improve life by increasing efficiency and creativity. “So it’s attractive to share our data, but you need to assume that you use it a fair game,” said English.
DeepSeek’s success suggests that the export control of advanced chips aimed at slowing China’s AI efforts may be even more strict, but not a silver bullet. “To make it clear, they are not a way to avoid competition between the United States and China,” said Dario Amodei, a CEO of GEN AI Startup Anthropic, in this week’s blog post. “Ultimately, US and other democratic companies need to have a better model than Chinese companies, but if we don’t need to. You should not pass the technical benefits of the Chinese Communist Party.
Pearl says that there is a possibility that it will eventually fall into the US government.
“The government has the same ability under the same law that Tactoku had to prohibit it. They can prohibit deep sheps. The passed law is not only applied to Tactoku. Pearl said. It is considered a threat to national security by foreign enemies or US President. Pearl believes that Despite President Trump’s ban on Tactoku, high -tech companies in the United States will be more lobby in AI.
“I think it can be said that US high -tech companies manage them and the DeepSeek would hunt down the AI market. It is important to put US companies at the forefront,” Pearl said. “Trump will hear from them at the highest level. China is making a champion by closing the United States from the market. Why do they need to allow them to dominate our market? “