Eager to provide more insight, the experts at AIPRM have revealed the five essentials people should be aware of before using DeepSeek:

1. What is DeepSeek designed for?

Real-time problem solving is at the core of DeepSeek-R1 – the free AI app, which was released in January 2025. It has the ability to analyse big complicated data sets in a quick and efficient manner, extracting key insights. DeepSeek also provides users with quick access to information specifically relevant to their needs, by focusing not only on keyword matching, but meaning and context as well.

2. Is your personal data safe?

A more thorough analysis of DeepSeek’s privacy policy reveals that its partners, including advertisers, share information with DeepSeek about your actions outside the AI app, such as your activity on other websites, or information on any products, or services you purchase online.

The AI tool also collects “keystroke patterns and rhythms”, which may never be deleted. This means DeepSeek tracks every button you’ve pressed on your keyboard, including for how long and the exact time you’ve done so.

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When it comes to the storage of all your personal data, the AI platform says they store it “for as long as necessary”, but doesn’t provide exact information on how they protect your data from unauthorised access, or whether they encrypt it.

3. Should you be worried about information bias? 

With DeepSeek being a Chinese company, it is regulated by Chinese law, which means it can censor any topics the Chinese government deem to be politically sensitive. Applying such censorship can in turn have an effect on the objectivity and accuracy of the information the platform provides. Certainly an important aspect to keep in mind before using the app.

4. Does DeepSeek pose a safety risk?

Recent research discovered DeepSeek’s safety measures can often be easily bypassed by users, which can result in the app providing harmful content, such as hate speech or threats, criminal and even self-harm materials. Furthermore, a whopping 83% of the bias tests researchers ran led to discriminatory output from the app. The tool’s high vulnerability to manipulation suggests it can prove dangerous and therefore, pose a safety risk.

5. Has the AI app been banned anywhere?

The number of countries that have imposed a ban on the use of DeepSeek continues to rise, as data privacy concerns are being raised. Italy was among the first countries to ban the app just last week.

Currently the following countries have imposed some type of ban on the usage of the AI tool:

• Italy– full ban on DeepSeek usage
• Taiwan– government agencies banned from using DeepSeek
• USA– banned in the Pentagon, the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Navy, NASA and Texas
• Australia– DeepSeek banned from all government devices.

Christoph C. Cemper, Founder at AIPRM, comments on the use of DeepSeek:

“While it’s true that current AI tools collect and store some type of user data, DeepSeek has been raising quite a few red flags with its privacy policy. This is one of the core reasons countries have begun to ban the app’s usage, with the US even proposing a law that could lead to people using DeepSeek receiving fines or possible jail time. One should be cautious of using the app, but in case you’re looking to start making use of it, the best course of action would be to thoroughly research  DeepSeek and familiarise yourself with the details of their privacy policy beforehand.”

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A new study from WordTips analyzed Google search data to uncover the most searched-for word definitions in every country.

“There is no nation without language, because there’s no collectivity without a language,” says Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. “[L]anguage is more than simply the way that the nation communicates with itself. Language is the instrument to create history and also a vision of where the nation is going.”

The words we choose, the words we borrow and the way we interpret them — even within the same language — are both personal and political. While we may not need language to think, words are how we articulate our thoughts and shape our (collective) identities. And so it is that word meanings evolve and come to fit our world as our cultures change and grow — with old words often growing into new uses that leave many of us grappling for dictionaries, “Urban” or otherwise.

In our new study, data scientists at WordTips found the word definition that each country searched for the most in 2024.

Using the Keyword Research Tool from Semrush, we ranked words based on the volume of Google searches for their definitions.

Searches were conducted in local languages to uncover the most googled word definitions worldwide.

Key Findings

• Demure, Fascism and Resilience are the most searched-for word definitions in six countries each.
• The most searched-for definition in the S. is Gaslighting, which has 110,000 monthly searches.
• The UK’s most searched-for definition is Diversity (9,900 monthly searches).
• Integrity is Canada’s most searched-for definition (8,100 monthly searches).
• In Australia, Genocide is the most searched-for definition, with 4,400 monthly