The Ministry of Finance uses chat, Deepsek for official purposes. Why is it here? Mint

The Finance Ministry has told its employees that to avoid using AI devices such as chat and deepsec for official purposes due to the risks of these chatbots for government documents and data confidentiality, citing the advisor to an internal department. , Report has been reported citing advisor to an internal department.

“It has been determined that AI Tools and AI apps (such as chat, deepsek etc.) (government) in office computer and equipment pose risk for data and privacy of documents,” Reuters quoted the Advisory.

While the notification is reportedly dated on 29 January, the news of its existence matches OpenAII CEO Sam Altman’s visit to India. Altman is expected to meet IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav.

India’s plan to make its own AI:

Last week, Vaishnav responded to the recent bounce of Deepsak in popularity by announcing India’s plans to enter the global AI race with their own basic models.

“The founding models made in India will be able to compete with the best of the best in the world … With algorithm skills, we can make these models in a very short deadline. We will have a world -class founder AI model in a few months. The Union Minister then said.

The Electronics and IT Minister also said that the issues of data secrecy around the Deepsac can be addressed by hosting the open source model on the Indian server.

Deepsek faced a global investigation:

Last week, the Dutch Privacy Watchdog AP announced that it was starting an investigation into Deepsek’s privacy policies, especially how app uses the individual information of users.

Since a sudden increase in popularity, Deepsek has come under increasing investigation from regulators around the world on its privacy policies. The Chinese app has already been banned in Italy after failing to fulfill the privacy concerns raised by the country’s Data Protection Authority.

Meanwhile, Australia announced on Tuesday that it was banning Deepsek from all government equipment on equal concerns.