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I don't trust this. China has a despicable record of spying and manipulating. I don't know how but this will go bad.
As if US based (or any large scale) AI models aren't already going bad?
Oh, no definitely they do. I just have a especially strong mistrust to this one.
Like this is at 4,9/5 on the Mistrust scale where the others linger by 4,5/5.
It's open source and you can just run it yourself without the restrictions on the app...
Okay but I won't. I will just not use it.
OK, that was always allowed.
Okay so now you start insulting me because I won't use AI. This is a new one.
I just checked your Account and you have track record of trolling. So I will simply block you then.
Fair. All of the big ones have some level of filters. In the US it's not regulated so the censorship/filtering is determined by the company providing the service. Those companies have business relations in both countries. I'm unsure the extent or how much any Chinese company might have with American business. In any case, both have the capability to collect your data and I'm of the opinion they do despite any claims of privacy. Furthermore, there's no tech company as large as these players without government funding via contracts.
Using AI is at a bare minimum as insecure as using Google/Bing search pre-AI era. Again my opinion is that it's dangerously less so, whether Chinese or American.
To that extent i personally can't imagine why China having your data is less secure than the US unless you're in a position of political importance to the US (government office/job/contractor) or running a large business with the capability to influence the US government through lobbying/media/etc...
FWIW I personally avoid AI in every way i know how to.
Just so i'm not called a tankie, I don't trust the CCP for anything other than cheap exploitative labor.
Except they released the model; you can run it on your own machine. Unlike OpenAI, they literally don't have the capability to collect your data.
ChatGPT was only released as SaaS, every thing you use it for goes through OpenAI's servers.
Deepseek was open-sourced, you can run it on a local machine where it is physically impossible for China to spy on you.
They also released how they trained Deepseek, so you could even make your own Deepseek, as these guys are doing.
Very informative read, thank you. Lets wait for Openb-R1 to be able for download, and use that time to check the machine's code for bugs (likely, every larger software has them!), backdoors (can never be excluded as a possibility), and ways of further optimization.
I have to admit that their idea to "milk" DeepSeek-R1 for its own reasoning data is intriguing. I wonder how early in that training process the political bias has gotten its foot into the door. Or is this a late-stage filter?
just like for american models, the political bias is irrelevant. Realistically you are using the model for its reasoning capabilities, not its answer to "what happened in Tiananmen".
I don't agree with the point that an artificially induced bias is in any way irrelevant. And the tales of "reasoning" capabilities are quite overblown, imho.
Of course chatgpt is saas, because it's a service built on top of a gpt model, which they made public
The ChatGPT4 model is not public.
That's the point.
Roflmasterbigpimp accused the Chinese company of spying.
I pointed out that the Chinese company can't spy becaause it's model was open source and could be locally run, while the US company set up its operation to allow it to spy on any use of its model.
Mubelotix claimed ChatGPT made their model public, which would only be relevant to the conversation as a evidence that the US is not spying either.
I said the model isn't public.
Well, there is an Android client that sends keystrokes (and loads of other data) back to Chinese servers. Which very much fulfils my definitions of spying.
The app uses Deepseek's servers. It physically could not function if it didn't send your input data to their servers.
What other data does it send?
It is not about sending just the prompt. It's about sending keystrokes, which goes beyond input to the current app.
Keystrokes you put into the app is useful for the devs to understand user intentions. But you saaid "loads of other data".
Answer by question first, what "loads of other data"? Did you just make that up?
There was another post today listing all the permissions the app needs/wants/requires. It was amazingly long.
It asks for camera and file permissions, both which can be declined. Everything else is metadata that comes with logging in via google or wechat.
Post link to GPT3 or GPT4 model download
Remember, America also has a despicable record of spying and manipulating.
And when you can please quote where I denied that, that would really help.
You specifically focused on China. Change your statement to "China and America" and we're good.
Deepseek is open source. People have looked it over and modified it a ton. If you are hosting it yourself there is no indication of it being Spyware or whatever.
If you blindly use someone else's server you are willingly giving up your days to them. Facebook has sold user data to forging companies, yet people like you have a hate boner for china.
I have no love lost for either government, especially at the moment when my rights are being threatened and trampled by my own. Between the two, China has no power to effect my life directly.
Regardless, there probably was some state help behind the development of deepseek, but that isn't relevant to the discussions of the tech and how western companies have been so stuck in their ways chasing short sighted profits at best or gifting at worst.
Either way, us companies have been missusing LLMs because they want to replace workers with them. That motivation isn't going to inspire a ton of innovation.
Ok, thank you I guess.