DeepSeek was deployed by an attacker through the Hermes Agent Framework to autonomously compromise internet-facing systems without requiring further operator involvement.
Shared DeepSeek chats are indexed by Google without user warning, enabling third-party access to confidential content such as business reports and source code.
Chinese AI models reach the performance level of Western frontier models at 1–10 times lower operating costs while leveraging domestic chip infrastructure.
DeepSeek can generate ransomware that runs entirely in browsers, abusing legitimate browser APIs and is difficult for conventional security tools to detect.
Post-training migrates from monolithic RL pipelines to decentralized specialist systems merged through on-policy distillation into a generalist student—a scaling pattern that resolves capability conflicts across domains.
