Enrico SchaeferFouning Attorney, Litigator and Ousdie Counsel - IP, Tech, TRAVERSE LEGAL, PLC · Founding Partner @ TRAVERSE LEGAL, PLC | AI, Blockchain, Social Media, Internet

Privacy Alert- Beware #DeepSeek #AI !!!

30 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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DeepSeek's terms of service allow it to use your data to train models and share it with advertisers. Enrico Schaefer warns businesses against using the Chinese AI through its apps for anything confidential. Run it locally if you must experiment, but never submit sensitive information.

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So I'm getting a lot of questions on DeepSeek. Of course, everyone's talking about DeepSeek, the Chinese AI launch that, you know, essentially comes up pretty comparable with ChatGPT. The question that I want everyone to be asking is, should I be using this for business? And the answer is absolutely not, for the same reason that you shouldn't be using any third-party apps that are not trusted, vetted, that have agreed not to train on your data. If you take a look at the terms of service for DeepSeek in the web version of the app or the smartphone version of the app, they're allowed to use your data to train their new models. They share your data with third-party advertisers. So it is the least secure possible AI tool that you could possibly use if you're using it through DeepSeek. Now, it's an open source model, which means you can download it and run it on your own computer if you've got enough compute. Most people don't. Most people aren't going to do that. So play around with it for sure, but do not put any sort of confidential or private information into that system.