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Dutch gov't bans officials from using Chinese AI app DeepSeek over espionage concerns


Dutch civil servants are banned from using the Chinese AI app DeepSeek for their work, State Secretary Zsolt Szabó of Digitalization announced. He called the AI chatbot “an app that is sensitive to espionage,” NOS reports.

Dutch civil servants are banned from using the Chinese AI app DeepSeek for their work, State Secretary Zsolt Szabó of Digitalization announced. Last week, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) urged Netherlands residents to be cautious with this app and use it with restraint, especially if they upload information about others to DeepSeek. Unlike with other AI chatbots like Chat GPT, users don’t have to take out a DeepSeek subscription to gain access to all its functions.

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