Taiwan said its public sector workers would be banned from using DeepSeek, a recently released Chinese artificial intelligence model, due to concerns over data leaks, joining a group of U.S. government agencies that reportedly introduced a similar restriction.
I’m not sure if this is what you’re getting at, but DeepSeek is open source (MIT licence).
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
They mean the service/app provided online by the CCP, not the model itself.
Fair enough. Using any non-local LLM is going to have significant negative privacy implications, though. It’s just a matter of who you’re giving your data to.