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Microsoft employees are n’t allow to use DeepSeek due to data point security and propaganda concerns , Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in a Senatehearingtoday .
“ At Microsoft we do n’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app , ” Smith said , advert to DeepSeek ’s covering service ( which is available on both desktop and mobile ) .
Smith enounce Microsoft has n’t put DeepSeek in its app store over those concerns , either .
Althoughlots of system and even countries have bring down restrictions on DeepSeek , this is the first clock time Microsoft has gone public about such a ban .
Smith said the restriction stems from the hazard that information will be stored in China and that DeepSeek ’s answers could be influenced by “ Chinese propaganda . ”
DeepSeek ’s concealment policystatesit stores user data on Chinese server . Such data is subject to Chinese law , whichmandatescooperation with the rural area ’s intelligence agencies . DeepSeek alsoheavily censorstopics considered sensitive by the Chinese government .
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But that ’s a bit different from offer DeepSeek ’s chatbot app itself . Since DeepSeek is open beginning , anybody can download the model , store it on their own servers , and declare oneself it to their clients without sending the data back to China .
That , however , does n’t remove other risks like the model spreading propaganda or generating insecure codification .
During the Senate hearing , Smith say that Microsoft had managed to go inside DeepSeek ’s AI model and “ change ” it to absent “ harmful side effect . ” Microsoft did not elaborate on exactly what it did to DeepSeek ’s model , referring TechCrunch to Smith ’s remarks .
In its initial launch of DeepSeek on Azure , Microsoftwrotethat DeepSeek underwent “ rigorous red teaming and safety evaluation ” before it was put on Azure .
While we ca n’t serve pointing out that DeepSeek ’s app is also a direct competitor to Microsoft ’s own co-pilot cyberspace lookup chat app , Microsoft does n’t ban all such schmoose challenger from its Windows app store .
Perplexity is usable in the Windows app store , for instance . Although any apps by Microsoft ’s archrival Google ( include the Chrome web browser and Google ’s chatbot Gemini ) did not turn up in our webstore search .
