Following Australia, the United States may be the second country to ban the use of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence on federal devices. U.S.
Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Darin LaHood introduced the bipartisan bill that called for this ban.
China has denied the allegations. However, experts say that there is some merit in the concerns raised by U.S. legislators and state executives.
It is reported that the Chinese government used to undertake the masse surveillance program with the use of AI models such as DeepSeek into biometric information and social media. That data is said to be shared with China's security forces and military as well and is also supposedly used for information attacks, in the U.S. and abroad, in China against their overseas-based dissidents.
Three leading Chinese surveillance and security firms, TopSec, QAX, and NetEase, have announced plans to use DeepSeek to enhance their products.
All three sell to the Chinese government with some openly mentioning that DeepSeek will improve their capabilities in cyber censorship and surveillance. Well, this improvement goes for AI-biometric data collection, facial recognition, and surveillance of systems like `smart cities`, the `Skynet Project`, and the `Xueliang Project` capable of overseeing every aspect of public existence of a person, as reported by Wenhao Ma from VOA's China Division.
In Feroot Security exposed java script code in DeepSee logon flow which sends data to China MobileState-owneedd communication company in China, reported AP News.
"AP described the code as a "highly obfuscated javascript file, which, when de-obfuscated, reveals certain references to systems running at China Mobile."
In March 2019, the United States banned China Mobile from operating in the country after intelligence findings that activity by China Mobile included it acting as a formidable surveillance tool for the Chinese military.
In the first week of February, 2022, cited an OpenAI report, actors from China have been misusing the ChatGPT and DeepSeek models for creating phishing emails as well as launching disinformation attacks against the U.S. for unnamed clients in China.
OpenAI was able to identify and take down a cluster of Chinese-based accounts carrying out harmful activities. One of which is the account named Qianyue Overseas Public Opinion AI Assistant. It has been allegedly built to monitor and collect posts and comments about Chinese politics and human rights coming from all over the internet, such as X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Telegram, and Reddit, specifically created for analyzing material on Chinese politics and human rights issues.
It was "intended to offer the resulting insight to Chinese authorities, including "Chinese missions abroad and intelligence personnel monitoring demonstrations in countries such as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom."
In February, OpenAI banned a number of ChatGPT accounts associated with Chinese influence campaigns to generate short English comments and long Spanish articles denouncing the United States; these were then published across many media sites in Latin America and Spain.
Another firm from China, which is Jilin Yousen Culture Communication Co., has been linked as a subsidiary affiliate of Beijing United Publishing House, another government-linked enterprise that is one of the companies behind the products that are placed in Spanish-language media.
VOA reviewed nine articles published in Spanish-language media during October and November 2024, according to OpenAI and identified as being AI-generated and coming from Chinese sources.
Two newspapers, El Universal from Mexico and El Popular from Peru, criticized the US for imposing sanctions on foreign governments and individuals, condemning it.
"In the beginning, America speaks out loudly that the sanction imposed on the oil sector in Iran is because Tehran supports such terrorist organizations as Hamas and Hezbollah. This proves its 'powerless maximums' which it can exercise in the field of international politics. It also proved the 'quickly crumbling maximums' of its 'moral authority,'
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For instance, El Popular described the U.S. sanctions on a Hamas affiliate as "insane" and characterized them as an "attack on the rights of the Palestinian people.
A La Republica piece, of course a Peruvian publication, abstracted that the war in Ukraine benefited the U.S., a central narrative from the Kremlin, thus perceiving the same. It also criticized the U.S. for arming Kyiv, describing such American support as a provocation in escalating the war.
China has been a major player in supplying military technology and weapons to Russia, which is of immense help in Moscow’s ongoing attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
Another article in La Republica, ostensibly influenced by China, described U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy as “diminishing the United States’ international leadership role.”
Three articles in Peru's Wapa, El Popular, and El Plural dealt with homelessness, child nutrition, and crime, and set them out as very pressing. They cast the U.S. as a country faced with very serious and alarming conditions.
For example, one of the reports on child nutrition stated that in the United States, "lots of kids... experience hunger on weekends and on holidays" ; this happens because the government doesn't make provisions for child food security.
These range from human rights and social issues in the United States. both foreign and domestic policy. paints a country that is troubled, plagued by poor ethical standards, and diminishing global stature, giving it a story that would fit very well with Beijing.
