If You Think Anyone in the AI Industry Has Any Idea What They're Doing, It Appears That DeepSeek Just Accidentally Leaked Its Users' Chats
Noor Al-Sibai
created: Jan. 30, 2025, 9:03 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.
<p>Seek Within DeepSeek has already changed the AI game in the days since announcing its latest powerful and cheaply-trained open-source model — but that doesn't mean the developers at the Chinese startup are infallible. Researchers at the cloud security company Wiz were poking around the back end of the groundbreaking open-source model's databases when they discovered, "within minutes," that they were able to access a trove of completely unencrypted internal data with ease. "This database contained a significant volume of chat history, backend data and sensitive information," Wiz explained in its vulnerability report, "including log streams, API Secrets, and operational […]</p>
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