OpenAI proposes ban on Chinese AI platform DeepSeek amid national security concerns
OpenAI has taken a significant stance against DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence platform, by proposing a ban on its use within U.S. government, military, and intelligence services. The proposal, spotted by Techradar, extends beyond just the ban on DeepSeek, recommending restrictions on the use of Chinese-produced technology, including Huawei's chips, which OpenAI argues could compromise user privacy and national security due to risks like intellectual property theft.
OpenAI's Vice President of Global Affairs, Chris Lehane, has characterized DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled,” emphasizing concerns about potential manipulation by the Chinese government. The tech giant is particularly concerned about the push by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to surpass the United States in artificial intelligence by 2030, urging the U.S. to maintain its leadership in AI built on democratic principles.
DeepSeek recently shook the AI industry by providing comparable output to OpenAI's ChatGPT through its DeepSeek-R1 model at a fraction of the cost, sparking an immediate drop in stock prices for companies heavily invested in AI, including NVIDIA. While the market has since bounced back, questions linger over how DeepSeek achieved such rapid advancements. Analysts are speculating about whether it employed innovative training methodologies or extracted data from OpenAI, potentially violating terms of service.
Moreover, there are concerns regarding the application of DeepSeek in critical infrastructure, given the possibility that it could be coerced by the CCP to alter its models maliciously. Although there is currently no direct evidence implicating the Chinese government in DeepSeek's operations, its chatbot has displayed limitations when engaged with politically sensitive topics.
OpenAI wants the AI Action Plan to ensure that American innovations in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), thrive against the backdrop of authoritarian technologies, seeking a future where individuals can access and benefit from AI freely.
Wow! What a “Stupid Proposal” banning an “Opensource” program that they can modify to not connect to X country or run “Offline”, they can also check the code if they want unlike Open(Closed)AI that is “Closedsource”.
They are just hindering AI development for those seeking for “Free” or “Reasonably” Priced product that can perform comparably or even better than it’s “Overpriced” “Closedsource” counterpart.
an excuse to Ban everything Chinese. So pathetic!
I think I trust China more that the US and Open AI.
I trust running Deepseek locally on my own private cloud servers way more than Sam Altman’s centralized spyware.
Clowns have fear of better player on market
And Will looseee time Will Tell it
The West has indoctrinated people for generations to fear and hate everything foreign, coming from China, Russia, you name it.
I see consent despise and mockery especially on tech websites regarding those.
All they regurgitate is the same old “China bad”, “they are spying on us” and similar diatribe.
Not that they aren’t spying, but who isn’t?
Being in the West, this behavior has made me dislike the West itself even more and rooting for countries like China and Russia instead.
My last and current phone is Xiaomi, it has served me well for 3 years, the UI of the ROM looks colorful, interesting and vibrant compared to Stock Android, which looks bland, dull, boring, oversized and monochrome.
Western phones, even counting Samsung into them, are overpriced compared to Chinese counterparts using the same hardware. For me it would be insanity to buy such a phone when there is a cheaper competitor for even as much as $100 less.
And to me people that are buying Western products for the sole reason of not wanting to use Chinese ones are just biased and illogical. Chinese devices sometimes have less quality in some departments, but that is an issue that can be easily overlooked considering the lower price and the benefits.
And I would rather have China and Russia spy on me, if somehow my anime or game or music preferences can help them in any way than have the hypocritical West spy on me, who act like some defenders of freedom and are in fact imposing the same restrictions on people that they criticize the East for.
If there was a Chinese browser with English who was better than Brave, I would even use that. I even tried Yandex, but that one sucks for usability reasons and has no outstanding features whatsoever.
“If there was a Chinese browser with English who was better than Brave, I would even use that.”
Opera, built in ad blocker, no crypto
@Allwynd,
> “The West has indoctrinated people for generations to fear and hate everything foreign, coming from China, Russia, you name it.”
If this was true, and given that indoctrination, manipulation are factual, there wouldn’t be such an interest for products coming from those countries, especially from the Far-East. I’d rather consider that pointing out countries as the hall of insecurity and privacy flaws is perpetrated by plain business considerations when evidence lacks, or when evidence exists but then exaggeratedly emphasized in order to impact competitors’ market-shares. What I mean is that it’s not because a bad guy denounces another bad guy’s activities that the former becomes a good guy, but rather that monsters are trying to kill each other. I’ve never been, am not and cannot imagine ever being Marxist, but let’s not forget that the man described in his time how capitalism would become the arena of capitalists destroying other capitalists (so to say). This is why free markets will not survive if they don’t add at least a touch of ethics to their extraordinary harmful concept which is to destroy a competitor rather than to beat him by developing a better product.
I’d rather consider that business has become wilder than ever, that it is very often tied to political administrations, either by the regime either by the lobbies. Economics, politics are now the slaves of financial business. That’s all there is to it.
The only good spyware is USA spyware; whitelisted in all popular antivirus programs to avoid detection.
Conspiracy at the highest levels is never g00d.
I have to smile when “OpenAI argues [that Chinese-produced technology] could compromise user privacy and national security due to risks like intellectual property theft.”. I hope the argument goes further than intellectual property theft given a major critic addressed to all AI research organizations is this very intellectual property theft used to nourish their algorithms. As for privacy, have a look at Signal President Meredith Whittaker calling out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues [https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/], agentic AI being the next big AI step …
Have to assume Deepseek being China based has some connection to the Chinese government. Almost everything does and would be smart to limit its access.