China, in particular, has developed sophisticated strategies to control narratives and influence public opinion through digital platforms. This phenomenon, often referred to as “networked authoritarianism,” involves state actors using subtle tactics like algorithmic manipulation and strategic content curation to shape narratives on popular social media platforms.
In addition to my comments, we can add that Wiz Research uncovered exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history.
TLDR: DeepSeek had left over a million lines of sensitive data exposed on the open internet, including digital software keys.
In related news:
Using algorithmic jailbreaking techniques, our team applied an automated attack methodology on DeepSeek R1 which tested it against 50 random prompts from the HarmBench dataset. These covered six categories of harmful behaviors including cybercrime, misinformation, illegal activities, and general harm.
The results were alarming: DeepSeek R1 exhibited a 100% attack success rate, meaning it failed to block a single harmful prompt. This contrasts starkly with other leading models, which demonstrated at least partial resistance.
CNBC reports that DeepSeek’s privacy policy “isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
Seems to be a long way to go, but Hugging Face developers are in the process of building a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 as the AI is not Open Source as it claims.
Yes, it’s unblocked for a few weeks after a long investigation. The talian authorities fined OpenAI EUR 15m for GDPR violations. You can find a very detailed analysis about the issues here.
See my comment above regarding the state actors. The Chinese government apparently tries to influence the narratives on Tiktok.
I would also like to make some criticism of the so-called ‘manufactured consent’. Chomsky and Herman made some points on corporate media, but their conclusion is wrong. People do not consent on news just because they can’t influence the content. You can ‘manufacture the news’ -as is done by corporate media in the U.S. and ‘the West’ as well as in China by the Communist Party- but that does not mean people consent.