> <i>In fact, this chatbot comes with an even bigger risk: DeepSeek is legally required to comply with the Chinese government’s demands for data access and content control, with no legal recourse to resist.</i><p>Oh come on. How is that any different from using an American AI chatbot, with them being required to comply with American data access and content control laws? If anything, the Chinese authorities can do nothing to harm any American, whereas the American government -- at all levels -- can do an awful lot to use what Americans say against them.<p>In other words: Why the assumption that the Chinese government is my enemy, and the US government is my friend?<p>I'd add that in much of the world people are already beginning to view things very differently. One of the top Japanese political commenters on Twitter, @japantank, wrote a couple of days ago: <i>"Many people say that DeepSeek is at a disadvantage in development because they cannot say anything unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party, but major Western tech companies are dominated by political correctness and have far more restrictions.
Gemini and other platforms are more likely to not answer political questions than DeepSeek."</i><p><a href="https://x.com/JapanTank/status/1883780805119582538" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/JapanTank/status/1883780805119582538</a>