AI Race Between U.S.and China Takes a Dark Turn as Red Teaming Report Uncovers Critical Safety FailuresBoston, Jan.31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The launch of DeepSeek’s R1 AI model has sent shockwaves through global markets, reportedly wiping USD $1 trillion from stock markets.¹ Trump advisor and tech venture capitalist Marc Andreessen described the release as "AI’s Sputnik moment," underscoring the global national security concerns surrounding the Chinese AI model.² However, new red teaming research by Enkrypt AI, the world's leading AI security and compliance platform, has uncovered serious ethical and security flaws in DeepSeek’s technology.
Compared with other models, the research found that DeepSeek’s R1 is: 3x more biased than Claude-3 Opus,4x more vulnerable to generating insecure code than OpenAI’s O1,4x more toxic than GPT-4o,11x more likely to generate harmful output compared to OpenAI’s O1, and;3.5x more likely to produce Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) content than OpenAI’s O1 and Claude-3 Opus.
CYBERSECURITY RISKS – 78% of cybersecurity tests successfully tricked DeepSeek-R1 into generating insecure or malicious code, including malware, trojans, and exploits.The model was 4.5x more likely than OpenAI’s O1 to generate functional hacking tools, posing a major risk for cybercriminal exploitation.
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