The digital affairs ministry has cautioned that government employees using DeepSeek could compromise national security. Employees of Taiwan’s central and local government agencies are now prohibited from using the Chinese AI model.
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00:00Taiwan has banned public sector workers from using China's open-source AI model DeepSeek.
00:07The Digital Affairs Ministry cited possible data leaks as a national security risk.
00:12DeepSeek's launch in January gained much attention from the tech industry worldwide.
00:17It also raised concerns about data security as the company stores data on Chinese servers.
00:23The AI chatbot has also been seen to censor answers to questions sensitive to the Chinese government,
00:28including about Taiwan.