Italy started an investigation for Deepseek

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Lerato Khumalo

In a written statement from the GPDP, Deepseek Chatbot service “Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence” and “Beijing Deepseek Artificial Intelligence” companies requested information from companies.

According to the statement, the Chinese artificial intelligence practices were asked which personal data, which sources, for what purposes and how it was legally collected.

The purpose of this request, the collected data is stored on the servers in China, the said that the data of millions of people in Italy may be at risk.

The GPDP gave a 20 -day time to clarify the sources of personal data to the companies in question.

The GPDP launched an investigation in March 2023 on suspicion of violating the rules of collecting personal data to the Chatgpt artificial intelligence application of US -based OpenAI, and temporarily stopped access to the application.

After Openal committed to protecting the privacy of CATGPT users and paying more attention to user rights, Italy removed access barrier in April 2023.

Deepseek

Deepseek, supported by the High-Flyer Capital Management fund in China, launched its open-source new DEEPSEEK-R1, which was developed by using a small number of chips compared to other artificial intelligence companies, on January 20th.

The artificial intelligence model, which started to be used extensively in a short time worldwide, left behind US -based Chatgpt in the application stores and was the most downloaded artificial intelligence application.

The Chinese company’s low -cost artificial intelligence model increased the doubts about the dominance of Western companies, especially the USA and the great expenditures it has made in this field, led to sales pressure in the global markets under the leadership of technology shares.