Australia banned the use of Deepseek on all federal government devices with the order of the Albanese government. This decision, which has taken a period of increasing concerns about the security risk in the large language model, can create a very important precedent.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Interior took action on the advice of the intelligence organizations that the chat robot constitutes an unacceptable security risk ”and signed a directive that prohibits the use of Deepseek throughout the government systems and devices. Interior Minister Tony Burke stressed that the decision is not related to China, but that the risks are based on a comprehensive assessment.

Burke said, “The government of Albane is taking quick and determined steps to protect Australia’s national security and national interests, and continued:“ Artificial intelligence is a promising and potential technology, but this government never moves when the risk of national security is detected. will not be afraid. “

Only weeks after the Albanese administration announced that the Chinese social media practice Tiktok announced that it has banned from all government devices due to “security and privacy” problems. It was also taken after the industry’s closely monitoring the release of the AI ​​chat robot and found some warning signs on censorship and data safety. This movement of the Australian government is seen in the same direction as the decisions of other governments such as Taiwan and Italy, which tries to prevent or limit access to Deepseek.

Ed Husic, the Minister of Science of the country, predicted Deepseek discussion, similar to the debate on Tiktok. Husic said in January, “I think people will naturally turn to it. I think that things like what you see in the discussions around Tiktok will emerge on Deepseek. I will not be surprised by this. ”

As mentioned above, Australia is not the only country that is concerned about Deepseek’s privacy problems. The US, which has a similar concern, is currently investigating whether Deepseek’s artificial intelligence models are trained by stealing the registered data of American companies. The Irish Data Protection Commission questions the details of how Deepseek works.