class=”wp-block-paragraph” id=”speakable-summary”>
Microsoft staff members are prohibited from using DeepSeek because of worries related to data security and potential propaganda dissemination, according to Brad Smith, who serves as both the company’s vice chair and president, during remarks made at a Senate hearing.
hearing
today.
“Microsoft does not permit its staff to utilize the DeepSeek app,” Smith stated, referencing the DeepSeek application service (accessible on both desktop and mobile platforms).
Smith mentioned that Microsoft has not included DeepSeek in its app store due to these concerns as well.
Although
Many organizations and even nations have enforced limitations on DeepSeek.
, this is the first time Microsoft has gone public about such a ban.
Smith stated that the limitation arises due to the potential for data storage in China, which might lead to DeepSeek’s responses being swayed by “Chinese propaganda.”
DeepSeek’s privacy policy
states
It keeps user information on servers located in China. This kind of data is governed by Chinese legislation, which
mandates
cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. DeepSeek also
heavily censors
issues deemed sensitive by the Chinese authorities.
Regardless of Smith’s harsh remarks regarding DeepSeek, Microsoft
offered up DeepSeek’s
The R1 model was launched on their Azure cloud service soon after it became widely popular earlier this year.
However, that’s somewhat distinct from providing DeepSeek’s chatbot application directly. Given that DeepSeek is open-source, anyone has the ability to download the model, host it on their own servers, and present it to their clientele without transmitting data back to China.
That, however, doesn’t remove other risks like the model spreading propaganda or generating insecure code.
During the Senate hearing, Smith said that Microsoft had managed to go inside DeepSeek’s AI model and “change” it to remove “harmful side effects.” Microsoft did not elaborate on exactly what it did to DeepSeek’s model, referring Dailyexeto Smith’s remarks.
During the first release of DeepSeek on Azure, Microsoft
wrote
DeepSeek went through “thorough red teaming and safety assessments” prior to being deployed on Azure.
Although we can’t avoid noting that DeepSeek’s application is also a direct rival to Microsoft’s Copilot web search chat tool, Microsoft does not prohibit all similar chat apps from being available in its Windows app store.
Perplexity can be found in the Windows app store. However, none of the applications from Microsoft’s main competitor, Google—including its Chrome browser and chatbot Gemini—appeared in our webstore search.
