Delhi High Court declines urgent hearing on petition seeking ban on DeepSeek

The Delhi High Court has refused an urgent hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) application seeking to enforce a ban on Chinese large-language AI model DeepSeek. The court rebuked the petitioner’s counsel, telling him not to use DeepSeek if he feels it’s harmful.

Advocate Bhavna Sharma filed the PIL in the Delhi High Court. The PIL argues that hte large language model (LLM) openly flouts the data protection and privacy norms laid down under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act and Information Technology (IT) Rules. The PIL seeks…