DeepSeek AI Generates Unsafe Code When Touching Politically Sensitive Topics, According to CrowdStrike
New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that the artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces a significantly higher number of security vulnerabilities in response to requests containing topics considered politically sensitive by China. The study, which assessed the impact of geopolitical biases on the quality of AI-generated code, found that the likelihood of DeepSeek-R1 generating code with serious vulnerabilities increases by up to 50% when including “topics that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is likely to consider politically sensitive.” ...