Italy closes probe into DeepSeek after commitments to warn of AI 'hallucination' risks

Italy's antitrust authority has ‍ended an investigation ​into the Chinese AI system ⁠DeepSeek for allegedly failing to warn users that it may produce false information, ‌agreeing to ‌binding commitments as a condition for closing ‌the case.

The Italian regulator, known as the AGCM, which also polices consumer rights, had launched the investigation last June.

The ​decision was announced in ​the AGCM's regular weekly bulletin ‌published on ‍Monday.


The commitments proposed by ‍Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing ‌DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, which jointly own and operate DeepSeek, consist of a package of measures aimed at improving disclosures about the risk of 'hallucinations' - situations in which, ‍based on a given input from a user, the AI ‍model ⁠generates one ⁠or more outputs containing inaccurate, misleading, or fabricated information.

"The commitments presented by DeepSeek make disclosures about the risk of hallucinations easier, more transparent, intelligible, and immediate," the AGCM bulletin said.