Officials are worried the chatbot may send personal information to the Chinese government Sault Ste. Marie city council agreed this week to ban use of the popular DeepSeek app on city-issued smartphones and tablets. DeepSeek is a free AI-powered chatbot that works much like ChatGPT, which was released in the United States in November 2022. Released in January of this year, DeepSeek within weeks passed ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States. "DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that has developed a Generative AI (Gen-AI) chatbot that produces content such...