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Amid DeepSeek, South Korea calls on public-sector workers to be careful of AI

By Choonsik Yoo ( February 5, 2025, 03:19 GMT | Insight) -- The South Korean government issued an instruction this week calling for public-service employees across the country to exercise care when using generative AI services in their work, amid increasing concerns in many countries about the data-management practices of China’s DeepSeek service, MLex has learned. The instruction did not refer to any specific incident or product as the reason, but was issued as the release in late January of DeepSeek’s R1 chatbot led to the launch of investigations or inquiries in several countries over concerns about security risks.The South Korean government issued an instruction this week calling for public-service employees across the country to exercise care when using generative AI services in their work, amid increasing concerns in many countries about the data-management practices of China’s DeepSeek AI service, MLex has learned....

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