At least, thatwasthe casebut now, a Chinese startup is threatening to take that crown for itself.
That company is DeepSeek, a name you’re likely familiar with if you have been following AI news.
Like ChatGPT’s OpenAI, DeepSeek develops generative AI models.
(These stocks have largely bumped back up since.)
Long-story short, DeepSeek is the latest ChatGPT competitor to enter the AI race.
How to try DeepSeek
DeepSeek is currently available as an app oniOSorAndroid, oravailable on the web.
Unfortunately, accessing the service is currently somewhat difficult.
But you likely won’t have a ton of success doing so, unless you’re persistent.
Perhaps once the hype dies down a bit, it’ll be easier to access.
But for the moment, good luck.
Once youarein, you’ll find the chatbot is quite similar to other generative AI bots you have tried.
you’re able to also search the web, if you choose.
Like other chatbots, DeepThink shouldn’t return results for prompts it considers inappropriate, offensive, or dangerous.
Let’s talk about something else."
The Guardian found that the bot willsometimesrespond with answers to potentially controversial questions.
(The Chinese government has been accused ofhuman-right violations and even genocideof the Uyghur population in Xinjiang.)
The Guardian found similar “glitches” when testing these types of prompts with DeepSeek.
Other than that, it’s basically ChatGPT.
But DeepSeek is a little more aggressive with its data collection policies than most.
They also employ cookies to track your activity, but you could disable this tracking in configs.
DeepSeek stores your data in China
Also concerning is how DeepSeek stores the data it collects.
Meanwhile, Google saysit’ll keep data for up to three years.
It’s no secret that big tech is rarely privacy friendly, and AI is no exception.
Even in those terms, however,DeepSeek is not a fantastic option for the privacy-minded.
