Government may soon issue advisory against Chinese AI model DeepSeek

Indian government is expected to issue an advisory soon, warning users about potential data privacy and cyber espionage risks associated with the use of the Chinese artificial intelligence tool, DeepSeek. According to an Economic Times report, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the aegis of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has undertaken a thorough enquiry of potential harm to Indian citizens using the genAI application on their devices. Quoting sources, the report further adds that the enquiry includes tracking user behaviour from prompts given to the chatbot, device data such as battery usage, other app interactions and even keystrokes of fingers.