Increasing Numbers of Organizations Ban DeepSeek
Wary of code implanted in DeepSeek that enables the AI chatbot to send user data to the Chinese government, increasing numbers of countries and organizations are simply banning it.
Italy, Taiwan and Australia have already given the cold shoulder to the app — China’s wunderkind answer to ChatGPT.
Other government entitites joining the ban include Texas, NASA, the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon.
Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “Corporations have banned DeepSeek, too — by the hundreds.”
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*In-Depth Guide: One Writer’s Take: Grammarly Beats Apple’s AI Writing Tools: For writing veteran Adam Engst, there’s no competition in a shoot-out between Grammarly and Apple: Grammarly wins, hands down.
Ernst’s biggest beef with Apple’s AI Writing Tools: “While Grammarly integrates seamlessly into your text and clearly shows what will happen if you accept a change in nearly all situations, Apple’s Writing Tools require constant activation and provide significantly less feedback about their changes”
For an in-depth comparison of the two, this is the place to click.
*OpenAI’s New ‘Deep Research’: A Game-Changer for Writers?: Writer Azeem Azhar believes OpenAI’s Deep Research — an AI tool capable of extremely in-depth Web research that can also auto-generate an in-depth, written report of its analysis — represents yet another inflection point in the advancement of AI for writers and other researchers.
Observes Azhar: “DeepResearch is a milestone in how we access and manipulate knowledge.
“I have run several queries through DeepResearch. Each time I pass a request to DeepResearch it evaluates it and, like a good researcher, asks for clarifications.
“In one of these, I asked it to research the comparative environmental costs — from energy, water, waste, and emissions — of a range of mainstream activities.
“Once I have responded to the question, DeepResearch disappeared off to do the work. In this case, the bot worked for 73 minutes and consulted more than 29 sources.
“The output was a table covering 11 different activities with six different dimensions of environmental impact. The full text is 1,900 words, excluding the dozens of footnote hyperlinks.
“For 73 minutes’ work, this is excellent. I certainly could not have done this in an hour. “
Currently, DeepResearch is only available to users of ChatGPT Pro — a $200/month version of ChatGPT.
*Google Adds Enhanced Brainstorming to its ChatGPT Competitor, Gemini: Google is out with a souped-up version of its AI Chatbot — dubbed ‘Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental.’
Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “This combines the speed of the original 2.0 model with improved reasoning abilities.
“So, it can think fast but will think things through before it speaks. For anyone who has ever wished their AI assistant could process more complex ideas without slowing its response time, this update is a promising step forward.”
*OpenAI Launches Major Expansion Into Japan: ChatGPT’s maker is teaming-up with investor SoftBank Group to expand aggressively into Japan.
Observes writer Kosaku Narioka: “The 50-50 joint venture will begin offering the services first in Japan and establish a model for global adoption.
“As the first case, the Japanese technology investment company will spend $3 billion annually to use OpenAI’s technology across its group businesses.”
*AI Proofreading/Editing Tools Enjoy Steady, Increasing Demand: Consumer appetite for automated proofreading tools looks healthy through 2031, which should grow annually at a 16% clip, according to Market Research Intellect.
Key players in the market, according to MRI, are:
~Grammarly
~ProWritingAid
~Ginger Software
~WhiteSmoke
~GlobalVision
~Intelligent Editing RussTek
~Litera
~Druide
~ClaimMaster
~LanguageTool
~WebSpellChecker
~Linguix
~Proofread Bot
~Plagiarismchecker
*OpenAI 03: A Deep Dive Into the ChatGPT-Maker’s Most Powerful AI Reasoning Engine: Writer Michael Kerner offers a comprehensive guide to what to expect from this advanced AI engine, specially designed for writers and others working in the hard sciences.
Observes Kerner: “While GPT-4 excels at general language tasks, the o-series focuses specifically on reasoning capabilities.
“Unlike traditional AI models, o3 is specifically designed to excel at tasks requiring deep analytical thinking, problem-solving and complex reasoning.”
*Fearless: AI Chipmaker Nvida Reportedly Sanguine About Sensation DeepSeek: Despite roiling markets earlier this month after apparently proving that major AI advances can be made for pennies-on-the-dollar — and without the most advanced versions of Nvidia’s renowned AI chips — DeepSeek has not rattled the Nvidia, according to writer Raffael Huang.
Observes Huang: “Some investors interpreted the advance as undercutting the market in the West for Nvidia’s top-of-the-line products.
“Yet Nvidia knew that risk came with what it was doing in China.”
*Run DeepSeek — China’s Answer to ChatGPT — on Your Laptop: YouTuber NetworkChuck has figured-out a way to run AI chatbot sensation DeepSeek on an everyday laptop — and shows you how in this 12-minute video.
Even better: NetworkChuck insists using DeepSeek on an laptop can be safer — in terms of data privacy — than using DeepSeek on the Web.
You be the judge.
*AI Big Picture: U.S. Legislators Mobilize to Ban DeepSeek: Talk about a persona non grata: A number of U.S legislators are coalescing behind a bipartisan bill that would ban DeepSeek from government-owned.
Wary that the chatbot — China’s answer to ChatGPT — will be used for spying and data-gathering by the Chinese government, many supporters see the ban as a no-brainer.
Observes writer Natalie Andrews: The chatbot app “has intentionally hidden code that could send user login information to China Mobile, a state-owned telecommunications company that has been banned from operating in the U.S.”
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