DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns

South Korea suspends DeepSeek, which vows to return in better shape Nation also orders enough GPUs to train many more LLMs South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has suspended local availability of apps from Chinese LLM-and-chatbot developer DeepSeek. The commission on Monday revealed the DeepSeek app was …

[ravenviz]

People always moan about NASA spending money on space rockets when there are poor people at home, but this is getting ridiculous!

[Pascal Monett]

Wait a minute

Didn't DeepSeek just demonstrate that you didn't need 100,000 GPUs to get a viable result ?

Shouldn't those grandiose plans be revised, or are the administrative busybodies too chuffed with the idea that they are going to be at the basis of a ridiculously expensive project to notice that they are already obsolete ?

[Irongut]

Re: Wait a minute

No. They proved that if you take someone else's already trained model and train it more using answers to benchmark questions provided by another model and lie about how much you spent on GPUs you can claim to beat those benchmarks for less money.

AI. It's lies all the way down.

[T LI]

Re: Wait a minute

This is what I call being completely brainwashed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Wait a minute

Clearly, telling Koreans that kimchi is Chinese is not a viable result.

[Alan Mackenzie]

..... the software breached "local" privacy laws.

No, it most assuredly did not. If anything, it breached NATIONAL privacy laws. South Korea is a nation, not some minor local borough, please.

[Irongut]

Re: ..... the software breached "local" privacy laws.

local

adjective

uk

/ˈləʊ.kəl/ us

/ˈloʊ.kəl/

from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of a country

So the word was used exactly correctly you moron.

[Howard Sway]

caused offence suggesting national dish Kimchi, a fermented vegetable salad, has Chinese origins

They should call their project Kimchi, as all LLMs produce is a fermented word salad. And what's the betting that code from the "banned" open source Chinese project mysteriously finds its way into their national effort : it would be madness to embark on a new effort and not include the demonstrated efficiency savings (not that the vast amounts being spent worldwide on this stuff at the moment are in any way sane of course).