Researchers have tricked DeepSeek, the Chinese generative AI (GenAI) that debuted earlier this month to a whirlwind of publicity and user adoption, into exposing the instructions that define how it operates.

DeepSeek, the new "it girl" in GenAI, was trained at a fractional cost of existing offerings, and as such has sparked competitive alarm throughout Silicon Valley. This has resulted in claims of intellectual residential or commercial property theft from OpenAI, and the loss of billions in market cap for AI chipmaker Nvidia. Naturally, security scientists have begun inspecting DeepSeek too, evaluating if what's under the hood is beneficent or evil, or a mix of both. And analysts at Wallarm just made considerable development on this front by jailbreaking it.

While doing so, they exposed its whole system prompt, bphomesteading.com i.e., a surprise set of guidelines, [users.atw.hu](http://users.atw.hu/samp-info-forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=c3dfb721209134545df7a2bc8b2f1bbd&action=profile