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Proton's very biased article on Deepseek (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Article: https://proton.me/blog/deepseek

Calls it "Deepsneak", failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.

I can't speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly.

Also, none of the article applies if you run the model yourself, since the main risk is whatever the host does with your data. The model itself has no logic.

I would never use a hosted AI service, but I would probably use a self hosted one. We are trying a few models out at work and we're hosting it ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

A quote from the article:

DeepSeek is open source, meaning you can modify code(new window) on your own app to create an independent — and more secure — version. This has led some to hope that a more privacy-friendly version of DeepSeek could be developed.

This is just plain wrong. The model doesn’t contain the privacy unfriendly logic and can be used freely and unmodified. In fact, there are plenty of other platforms available right now where you can use it that are not Chinese.

This article makes fair points, if you ignore the fact that they don’t know what they’re talking about. You need to fix the errors in your head while reading it for it to make sense. If you don’t have the knowledge to do that, the whole article is a bit misleading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

True, hosting deepseek yourself is much better. I'd still wait and see if anyone finds weird stuff in the code itself but tbh idk how long that could take.

Can't wait for the models to get better and hopefully stay open source!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

weird stuff in the code

What code? We use a different runner for the model so we can run multiple different AI models, so the only thing we're getting from DeepSeek is the model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I just meant generally, not sure what 'open source' means in the context of ai (not a programmer)