The South Korean espionage service accused the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) Deepseek of collecting personal information “overly” and questioned the application answers to questions related to issues of national interest.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent official information to government services last week inviting them to take preventive security measures for the implementation of artificial intelligence.

“Unlike other artificial intelligence services, it has been confirmed that the talks are transferable as it includes a type of type of types of typing patterns that can recognize persons and communicate with Chinese companies such as Volceapplog.com,” NIS said in yesterday’s communication.

Some Ministries in South Korea have blocked access to the applicationciting security concerns, following the example of Australia and Taiwan who warned or even applied Deepseek restrictions.

NIS stated that Deepseek gives advertisers unlimited access to users’ details and Saves South Korean users’ details in Chinese servers.

Under Chinese legislation, the Chinese government will be able to access such information when requesting it, the service added.

Deepseek also gives different answers to possibly sensitive questions in different languages, NIS said. He cited such a question about the origin of Kimci – a spicy dish that is very popular in South Korea.

Asked about Kimci in Korean, the app replied that it was a Korean dish, Nis said. To the same question but in Chinese, the application replied that the dish came from China, according to NIS. The answers were confirmed by Reuters.

The origin of Kimci has occasionally been a source of friction between South Koreans and Chinese social media users.

Deepseek has also been accused of censoring answers to political questions such as repression on Tiananmen Square in 1989, with the application answering “let’s talk about something else”.

Asked about the Movement of South Korean Ministries to block Deepseek, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in informing journalists on 6 February that the Chinese government is paying great importance to their personal data and security and protects them in accordance with the legislation.

The spokesman also said that Beijing will never ask a company or person to gather or store evidence by violating the legislation.