According to the South Korean intelligence service, the answers that the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek gives to potentially sensitive questions sometimes depend on the user’s language.
When the chatbot was asked in Korean where the popular dish kimchi comes from, it would have said it was a Korean dish. In Chinese, the answer is that kimchi comes from China.
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Intelligence agency NIS also says that the Chinese chatbot collects many personal information from users and has warned government agencies about DeepSeek.
According to the agency, advertisers can have unlimited access to information about users and data of South Koreans is stored on servers in China. That means that the Chinese government can also get access to the data.