The Microsoft staff is prohibited from using the DEEPSEEK app, the president says.

Microsoft vice chairman and chairman Brad Smith said today that Microsoft employees cannot use DEEPSEEK due to data security and propaganda issues.

Smith said, “In Microsoft, employees can’t use the DEEPSEEK app.

Smith said Microsoft did not put DeepSeek in the App Store in DeepSeek.

Many organizations and countries have also imposed a limit on DeepSeek, but this is the first time Microsoft has released it for the first time.

Smith said that the restriction comes from the danger of being stored in China and DEEPSEEK’s response can be influenced by “China propaganda.”

According to DeepSeek’s privacy policy, user data is stored in a Chinese server. These data are subject to Chinese law, which mandates cooperation with national intelligence agencies. Deepseek also censors the censorship topics that the Chinese government is considered sensitive.

Despite SMITH’s critical commentary on Deepseek, Microsoft provided the R1 model of the DEEPSEEK to the Azure Cloud service immediately after the virus earlier this year.

But it is slightly different from providing the chatbot app in Deepseek. DEEPSEEK is an open source, so anyone can download the model, save it to its own server, and provide the data to China without returning it to China.

However, it does not eliminate other risks, such as a model that spreads propaganda or generates unstable code.

At the Senate’s hearing, Smith said that Microsoft went into the AI ​​model of the Deepseek and “changed” to remove “harmful side effects.” Microsoft mentioned Techcrunch’s remarks and did not explain in detail about the exact work of DeepSeek’s model.

Microsoft wrote that in the initial launch of Deepseek, DeepSeek received a “strict red team and safety evaluation” before he put it in Azure.

DEEPSEEK’s app is not pointed out that the Microsoft itself is a Copilot Internet Search Chat app, but Microsoft does not prohibit all of these chat competitors in Windows App Store.

For example, Perplexity is provided in Windows App Store. All apps of Microsoft Archival Google (including Chrome Browser and Google’s chatbot Gemini) did not surf in the webstore search.