{"id":50705,"date":"2025-01-28T21:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/australian-minister-urges-caution-over-chinas-deepseek-raises-privacy-concerns"},"modified":"2025-02-09T01:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:09:16","slug":"australian-minister-urges-caution-over-chinas-deepseek-raises-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/australian-minister-urges-caution-over-chinas-deepseek-raises-privacy-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Australian minister urges caution over China&#8217;s DeepSeek, raises privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Australian Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic on Tuesday raised privacy concerns over China\u2019s AI chatbot DeepSeek, urging users to think carefully before downloading it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people will naturally gravitate towards that. I think there\u2019ll be parallels to what you\u2019ve seen with discussion around TikTok that emerge around DeepSeek as well. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if that emerges,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier speaking to ABC, the Australian minister said that China has been determined since the last decade to be a world leader in artificial intelligence and he urged caution while downloading the Chinese app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be very careful about that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, US President Donald Trump said that the sudden rise of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek should be &#8220;a wakeup call&#8221; for America\u2019s tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>Offering a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, DeepSeek has raised alarms among Western tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek launched its DeepSeek-R1 large language model (LLM) on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike ChatGPT\u2019s subscription-based and closed-source platform, priced at $200 per month, DeepSeek-R1 is entirely open-source and free, allowing users to access and operate it on native hardware without limitations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mauritius<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Australian Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic on Tuesday raised privacy concerns over China\u2019s AI chatbot DeepSeek, urging users to think carefully before downloading it. &#8220;I think people will naturally gravitate towards that. I think there\u2019ll be parallels to what you\u2019ve seen with discussion around TikTok that emerge around DeepSeek as well. 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