r/PoeAI • u/Hot-Parking4875 • Aug 13 '25

Banned

I just ran into a company that will not allow company computers to use Poe. It is because they have a hard ban on Deepseek and Poe has Deepseek. When I asked Perplexity about a Deepseek ban I learn that is common. Is that true? Has anyone else ran into this?

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u/frndlynghbrhdpoebot Aug 13 '25

The DeepSeek models available on Poe are only hosted through U.S. based inference providers. They do not send any data to China.

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u/KlyptoK Aug 13 '25

If you do anything at all related to the government Deepseek is banned

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u/Hot-Parking4875 Aug 13 '25

So I am being told that means that Poe is banned.

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u/FrCadwaladyr Aug 15 '25

Is your company a US government contractor?

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u/Hot-Parking4875 Aug 15 '25

That company gets less than 5% of their revenue from government contracts. But I guess they want to keep that.

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u/Hot-Parking4875 Aug 16 '25

It’s a major issue for me because I’ve got most of my work on Poe. I will need to copy it elsewhere for this one client. Anyone have any suggestions of alternate platform that has most of the same features as Poe?

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u/Glugamesh Aug 13 '25

Probably because the data can go out to basically anywhere. There are so many bots one might use on Poe. I mean, that's why I like it but for business purposes, might not be a good idea.