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Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores (www.rte.ie)
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[–] cyd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm curious whether Deepseek will gaf about this. They've been rather uninterested in commercialization, and the app is mainly a way of showing off their model, which itself is released open-weights. In fact, it's literally impossible to spend money in the app! They sell tokens but it's API-only, and you can't spend it in the app.

So it's entirely possible the Deepseek will shrug, let their app be banned in Germany, and keep doing what they're doing.