Chinese AI language model Deepseek blocked in Federal Parliament
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The Chinese AI-Chatbot Deepseek has been blocked in the Federal Parliament since last week. The services of the Chamber confirm this to Belga. The controversial language model is under fire throughout Europe due to privacy delivery. The restriction also applies to civil servants and several government services.
Deepseek is a language model just like the American chatgpt from OpenAi is. However, the Chinese competitor is trained with considerably fewer resources than Chatgpt. The launch of a new model that can also reason did the financial markets at the end of January. Deepseek causes questions about the American dominance in the field of AI.
However, the model gets more and more criticism from the Western corner. There is censorship built into the answers about the Chinese state, but there are also large question marks in the field of privacy. Also in Belgium, just like in other European countries, an investigation into Deepseek has been opened due to possible breaches of European data protection rules. South Korea has also removed the app from local app stores.
The services of the Chamber confirm to Belga that since last week access to Deepseek has been blocked in the Federal Parliament, just like with multiple government services. Moreover, the tool is no longer accessible via the WiFine network and the wired internet in the room. « This decision will be again evaluated as soon as there is more clarity about the dangers associated with the platform, » says an internal bill. (LLA)
