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US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool
Saturday, February 8, 2025
US lawmakers in Washington DC have this week moved to enact a national ban on the use of DeepSeek, the breakout Chinese generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool that sprang to prominence and wiped billions off the value of US tech companies at the end of January.
Thinking beyond China
Ilia Kolochenko, ImmuniWeb CEO and BCS fellow, said that even though the risks stemming from the use of DeepSeek may be reasonable and justified, politicians risked missing the forest for the trees and should extend their thinking beyond China.
“Numerous other GenAI vendors from different countries – as well as global SaaS platforms, which are now rapidly integrating GenAI capabilities – oftentimes without properly assessing the related risks – have similar or even bigger problems,” he said.
“Whilst DeepSeek’s risks should certainly not be discounted or underestimated, we should remember the fundamental risks and problems of all other GenAI vendors. Many of them unwarrantedly scrapped proprietary and copyrighted content from the internet to train their powerful LLMs – without ever asking for permission from content creators or copyright owners – now vigorously denying any wrongdoing under varying untenable pretexts.
“The unfolding DeepSeek incident shall not be exploited as a ‘convenient’ reason to suddenly forget about serious violations and AI-related risks posed by other GenAI vendors,” said Kolochenko. Read Full Article
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