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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

And? This anti China propaganda is falling apart.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least its not stored on american servers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

I feel like Meta could do a ton more damage with my information than Tencent

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I’m typing into the app, is that really collecting keystrokes?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

And why is that an issue? It's typing data sent to a language model. What nefarious info might they be looking for? Learning to imitate humans? Fingerprinting? Making the best virtual keyboard asmr?

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

No.

As opposed to Microsoft, Google, .. NSA, or GCHQ servers. Or all of the above.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not surprised at all why would I? Don't act like other AI services is privacy focused. It's all same. THEY ALL COLLECT DATA.

But good thing about is deepseek is you can run locally unlike Closed AI Chat GPT. No need to use shitty app.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is probably only a problem with the online version. In contrast to google and openAI they, like meta, let you download the model and run it offline, where they can't access any of this data I presume.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I've been running it locally using ollama, works completely offline, no keystroke data for anyone!

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They all do this...

Don't use hosted models unless you pay for your own server space and it is encrypted.

Don't be a fucking idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Isn't it open source? If so it should be near trivial to get rid of all of that.

If it's closed source I wouldn't touch it with a tej foot pole, it's the same reason I rarely use chat gpt, it's just freely giving away your personal data to open AI.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

If you think the American companies do anything different you're not paying attention and simply believing the propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

other ai services do too. u might not realize it.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Anyone using DeepSeek as a service the same way proprietary LLMs like ChatGPT are used is missing the point. The game-changer isn’t that a Chinese company like DeepSeek can compete with OpenAI and its ilk—it’s that, thanks to DeepSeek, any organization with a few million dollars to train and host their own model can now compete with OpenAI.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you don't understand how a web app works. 🤦

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Does TikTok access my wifi network? 😤

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Doubtful, since it's both open source and you can run it locally. This seems more like a smear piece.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is why you run stuff locally or not at all.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same as Chrome's magic bar, or android keyboard no ? So in the end, does USA doing it good because "democracy" (never ever with napalm) when China is bad because human rights violation (USA never did anything like this) ?

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