The South Korean data protection watchdog informed Yonhap News Agency, “We verified that DeepSeek was in contact with ByteDance.”
Due to worries over data security, the nation has already taken DeepSeek out of app stores over the weekend.
The Chinese app’s assertions that its new model was trained at a significantly lower cost than US competitors like ChatGPT sent shockwaves through the AI sector in January, wiping billions off global stock markets.
Since then, several nations have issued warnings that user data might not be adequately safeguarded, and in February, a US cybersecurity firm claimed that DeepSeek and ByteDance may have shared data.
Due to its seemingly instantaneous impact, DeepSeek quickly rose to the top of the App Store charts in the US and UK.
