Privacy

OP is notorious for not giving a shit about privacy (and has posted conspiracy site spam before), and this article continues the trend. PCMag gives DeepSeek a 2/5 rating but Google Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT get 4/5 with no heading criticizing privacy.

It gets worse: PCMag cites a Trump administration special committee report as evidence Deepseek isn't private. I could go on for a while about how both Google and OpenAI get special treatment from the US, but hopefully it's clear that they (like OP) only see danger stemming from the geographical location of the servers and not their actual harm.

PCMag describes DeepSeek data collection as "fairly standard for chatbot data collection," but then claims "other serious privacy concerns" before linking that report.

Meanwhile "OpenAI collects a significant amount of data," it "was not forthcoming" with data breaches, and the author doesn't "recommend sharing anything too sensitive with ChatGPT."

Strange DeepSeek gets the "not secure" label and ChatGPT does not.

It's open source. Which is way better than ClosedAI, or anyone else. Show show gratitude folks.

'occasionally incorrect' like any other AI out there?

ChatGPT and Gemini have persistent memory, meaning they can remember conversations across different chats. Copilot can remember certain things, too. DeepSeek’s memory, on the other hand, is limited to each chat, meaning you need to repeat yourself to continue talking about topics from previous ones.

I don't think this is a default for Gemini or Copilot, though it probably can be implemented easily for DeepSeek (but they probably have better things to do than to sell itself)

DeepSeek might be somewhat clunky, but it eventually gets the job done. However, I don’t recommend relying on its text extraction and document analysis for anything mission-critical because it sometimes misunderstands files, just like ChatGPT and Gemini can. Make sure you double-check its responses for anything important.

Actually, my experience is different

Out of every AI I tried including Claude, DeepSeek had the most accurate, detailed, and extensive capability to read a huge file, follow user prompt to a T, and still have great capability to use for other tasks

It's weird how this is rated 2/5, though if you exclusively use DeepSeek as a casual user I would see why

Currently I make use of DeepSeek for anything that requires some thinking, Gemini for whatever else

DeepSeek has a good searching system in my opinion, while it doesn't explicitly tell you which part of the sources they used for their output, it still makes sure to only use relevant information and i felt that it was more reliable than Gemini

Ironically enough, the censorship is limited only to text generation, and I'm unsure if this applies to the API but it has a very progressive stance (compared to Gemini) and isn't parroting CCP talking points like you might have expected.

It also has the most capable model for talking to with Chinese, and it was very useful for translating stuff, and searching stuff in Chinese contexts (it can search in Chinese and reply in English allowing for easy research of anything Chinese)

This article makes it seem extremely subpar but the model behind it is great and worth using even if you had the budget for Claude, you would get more out of it by using a client for it with the API though.