The Dutch government has banned Deepseek for civil servants. Is it still wise to use the chatbot? You need to know this.
Deepseek prohibited
It has been forbidden for Dutch officials to use Deepseek since this week. The spokesperson for State Secretary Zolt Szabó (digitization) has confirmed this. The prohibition applies to the central government, municipalities themselves make a trade -off about the use of Deepseek. The ban on the chatbot is not very surprising, because officials have not been allowed to use Chinese applications for some time.
The government is pursuing this policy, because, according to the spokesperson, China has an offensive cyber program aimed at the Netherlands. All apps from countries with a similar program should not be used by Dutch officials. Similar measures against Deepseek have also been taken in South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and Italy. Italy has even forbidden Deepseek throughout the country. Is it still wise to use the chatbot in the Netherlands?
Be careful with deep clevest
The advice is to be careful if you share information with Deepseek. Incidentally, that applies to all chatbots, as Dutch government agencies have already blocked Chatgpt. Deepseek is no different in this, the big difference is that the information is stored on Chinese servers. For both Chatgpt and Deepseek, it is not recommended to share personal, financial or other confidential data.
The government wants to prevent sensitive information from being shared with AI services. That is the reason that Chatgpt and Deepseek is forbidden for civil servants. For regular users it is different, as long as you do not share personal information with the chatbot. Think of data if your bank account number, pin code, passwords, address details. You should never share this information with Deepseek, but also not with chatgpt.
This is how you use Deepseek
Do you share this information? Then they may be used for training language models and they are stored on the servers of the company behind the chatbot. At AI services you do not know exactly where this information ends up and what the data is used for. Moreover, the information is vulnerable if the companies behind Chatgpt or Deepseek are involved in a data breach or cyber attack.
Where Chatgpt and Deepseek are forbidden for civil servants, it is still possible to use the chatbots for certain purposes. For example, you can ask simple questions such as drawing up shopping lists, making recipes or collecting information about your holiday destination. AI services such as Chatgpt and Deepseek are useful tools in this way, provided that you do not share sensitive information with the chatbots.
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