Posted on 01/31/2025 3:37:48 AM PST by EBH
DeepSeek’s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law — which mandates cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies.
But that didn’t stop U.S. Department of Defense workers from getting caught up in the DeepSeek hype this week and connecting their work computers to Chinese servers, using the service for at least two days, Bloomberg reported.
The Pentagon has since started blocking DeepSeek on some of its network, although some employees could still access the service, according to Bloomberg.
The U.S. government is grappling with the national security implications of soaring interest in the Chinese AI chatbot, which has climbed to the top of both the U.S. Apple and Play stores.
On January 24, the U.S. Navy banned employees from accessing DeepSeek over security and ethical concerns, CNBC reported.
We may not know for quite a while what hidden malware etc. is laced into the DeepSeek program. The name alone should inform one that it is malicious on some level.
Memo, any federal employee found to be using this app will be terminated immediately
The storing or transmission of sensitive data to unsecured areas has always been a fire-able offense, often a criminal one. Knowingly giving the national security info to China is treasonous.
How stupid are these people? Like the post above says, fire these idiots.
One would have thought it was common sense you don’t download anything onto your work computer that isn’t authorized?
How do you get your (stolen from other AI platforms code) AI DeepSeek planted in the US military infrastructure?
Why, trust in the capable hands of the thousands of public education victims working at the Pentagon and other DoD facilities to IGNORE all the prohibitions against logging onto DeepSeek or loading it onto official DoD laptops, phones or other hardware because, you know, they’re all smart enough to understand the ramifications of a FOREIGN intelligence service’s AI bot burrowing into every part of our defense network at the Pentagon, thus, into every connected device on the planet, maybe even satellites, nuclear bunkers, etc.
We’re talking about a population with an attention span shorter than a Goldfish!
“ DeepSeek’s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law — which mandates cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies.”
We. Are. SO. F**ked!
Hello “Skynet.”
And this is exactly why banning TikTok was absolutely useless...
With stunts like this by Pentagon staff, I have a feeling it was meant to be a rope-a-dope operation. Accuracy to the public wasn’t or isn’t the goal.
Reading the TOS and Privacy policy it is clear...data and access to data is the goal.
AI Phishing Expedition
And, lock out the connection to the DeepSeek network. It’s a relatively easy fix, all things considered.
DoD is asleep at the wheel is this access continues.
What astonishing idiots! WTF are these people thinking? “Hey, the Chinese government just released a poorly understood, supposed technological marvel of an AI program! I GOTTA connect my DoD computer to THAT!”
I know! It is incredibly irresponsible.
Now if the happened at the Pentagon, wait for it...
How many other government/infrastructure computers are compromised?
Technology FOMO is going to be the death of us all.
Anyone who down loads this should be prosecuted. Either some real idiots or moles
If DOD employees were hooked up for even a couple of days, the question at this point is how much sensitive information has already been compromised?
All of it?
There’s a dystopian sci fi novel or movie here, set in the near future ... as in the day after tomorrow. China invades Taiwan and we suddenly discover that none of our planes will fly, our ships lose all control systems, the Chinese control the nuclear launch codes and have probably retargeted all the missiles on U.S. cities (although we are now locked out of the system and can’t check). And the tampon dispensers across the entire defense establishment have been disabled, throwing everything into complete paralysis.
Yet no mention of your obvious suggestion...
Seriously anyone who did this should be fired immediately and probably prosecuted.
WTF. You’re working with confidential information and you don’t have the common sense not to connect to the outside, whether US or China. Doubly so AI where everyone has already had their training/warning not to share work with a genAI instance. Goodbye and don’t pack the box, we’ll send your personal things later.
48 hours, that’s a long time for an AI to gather data, files, keystrokes, text and emails…this is now all on CcP servers.
This is a yuge security breach.
I know seriously. They even tell you what they’re going to collect in their terms of service and privacy policy and they did it anyway. Anyone working on any sensitive computer system whether it’s for the DOD infrastructure electric company anything of that sort water company should not be connecting to an outside AI system. This might be the one time. I actually agree with them ordering this particular app be removed immediately from the App Store companies worldwide are not prepared to deal with this on this level.
*** 48 hours, that’s a long time for an AI to gather data, files, keystrokes, text and emails…this is now all on CcP servers.***
They didn’t just gather data for 48 hours, lol, they are embedded in there now. How could anyone possibly think this was some accident by incompetent idiots just playing around on their work computers?
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