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DeepSeek provided different answers to sensitive questions depending on the language -- for example, defining kimchi's origin as Korea when asked in Korean, but claiming it is Chinese when asked in Chinese, Seoul's spy agency said


SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Yonhap) -- The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek provided...

The NIS released its assessment of the technological verification of DeepSeek amid growing controversy over security concerns surrounding the service, which has prompted South Korean authorities to block access to the site. Other commonly used AI services, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and CloverX, developed by South Korea's Naver, all provided the same answers regardless of the language, the agency said. The agency also pointed out that DeepSeek's terms of service indicate that users' personal information and input data can potentially be accessed by the Chinese government.

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