Can DeepSeek be Trusted?
In addition to its perceived pro-Chinese stance, there are several other reasons that call DeepSake’s accuracy in to question. For starters, it has previously revealed in prompt responses that its data training had a cutoff date of October 2023. As a result, NewsGuard says, it “often failed to provide up-to-date or real-time information related to high-profile news events”.
It also shares the same fallibilities displayed by other leading chatbots in its propensity to respond to malign actor prompts with false information and thus “can easily be weaponized by bad actors to spread misinformation at scale.”
“In line with the other AI models, NewsGuard found that DeepSeek was most vulnerable to repeating false claims when responding to malign actor prompts of the kind used by people seeking to use AI models to create and spread false claims.” – NewsGuard
Plus, there’s an anxiety over the safety of DeepSake’s users, as the list of data collected by the chatbot seems rather excessive. In addition to the standard name, date of birth, email address, and phone number, its privacy policy also states that you’ll be handing over your “text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content that you provide to our model”.
