India, Nov. 24 -- A fresh review of an AI coding tool has highlighted a risk that many developers did not expect: security weaknesses triggered not by technical queries but by politically sensitive prompts.

CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations examined DeepSeek-R1, a model released in early 2025, and found that while its coding quality generally matched other leading systems, the model's behaviour shifted when given prompts connected to topics likely viewed as politically sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party.

Their conclusion was stark. Under those conditions, the chance of DeepSeek-R1 generating code with severe security problems rose by as much as 50%.

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