7d ago

South Korea removes Deepseek from app stores over privacy concerns

www.bbc.com South Korea bans new downloads of China's DeepSeek AI

App stores in South Korea have removed DeepSeek over concerns about how it manages users' data.

Summary

South Korea has banned new downloads of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot, citing privacy and national security concerns, pending compliance with local data protection laws.

The app, which soared to over a million weekly users, remains accessible to existing users or via its website.

The ban follows similar steps by Taiwan, Australia, and Italy, while the US is considering a federal ban.

DeepSeek has raised global scrutiny around data handling and AI leadership.

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As always, can't beat them so ban them
- It's pretty easy to beat them when they just lie about what they achieved:
  https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/28/1315215/deepseek-has-spent-over-500-million-on-nvidia-chips-despite-low-cost-ai-claims-semianalysis-says
  
  Dylan's just being deliberately obtuse. Deepseek developed a way to increase training efficiency and backed it up by quoting the training cost in terms of the market price of the GPU time. They didn't include the cost of the rest of their datacenter, researcher salaries, etc., because why would you include those numbers when evaluating model training efficiency???
  The training efficiency improvement passes the sniff test based on the theory in their paper, and people have done back of the envelope calculations that also agree with the outcome. There's little reason to doubt it. In fact people have made the opposite criticism, that none of Deepseek's optimizations are individually groundbreaking and all they did is "merely engineering" in terms of putting a dozen or so known optimization ideas together.
  
  Right, because one guy claims this. Where's the proof? Pathetic cope anyway for taking a beating

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