Just because you can (pretty easily) self host it doesn’t mean that the privacy concerns aren’t valid.
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Lemmy users very biased link to article that isn't nearly as biased as they are purposefully biasing.
Maybe this community needs stricter posting guidelines to avoid this sort of drivel?
Except you can't run it.
Every model You are downloading and running is simply just a checkpoint of llama....
Quit spreading that misinformation.
You, and the grand majority of everyone else, doesn't have anywhere near the hardware to run the actual full deepseek model
I run one a of the smaller model on an M1 max and it's working pretty good. Much better than I would jave thought. Some guys on youtube manage to get the 600b parameters models to run on sub 5k hardware. It's a total game changer. In a couple of years it will probably run loccaly on phones.
DeepSeek is open source, meaning you can modify code[...] on your own app to create an independent — and more secure — version. However, using DeepSeek in its current form — as it exists today, hosted in China — comes with serious risks for anyone concerned about their most sensitive, private information.
They are not wrong here.
After having read the article fully it doesn't seem to be that partial and acknowledge also the failing of others. It is not as stupid as the CEO stance on "Republicans helping the little guys" for sure.
Wait. Protons CEO is conservative?
He's been kissing the ring on social media like the others IIRC
Damn I switched to proton last year and am NOT migrating again.
I thought it was based in the EU. Why does he care about the US at all?
But that's also true for American companies.
As a European, I trust them as much as I trust Chinese ones.
Ho yeah but they are definitely not ignoring that in the article. It's just that they are talking mostly about the subject of the article which is: deepseek
The problem with any kind of journalism like this though is that it talks about the topic of the article, sure, but it doesn't acknowledge the other relevant parties that have most of all the same concerns.
It's a matter of framing for the situation. I'd rather read something that talks about both sides instead of just one.
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
That's not why. Almost no one is going to do that. That's why they didn't mention it.
They are absolutely right! Most people don't give a fuck about hosting their own AI, they just download "Deepsneak" and chat..and it is unfortunately even worse than "ClosedAI", cuz they are based in China. Thats why I hope Duckduckgo will host deepseek on their servers (as it is very lightweight in resources, yes?), then we will all benefit from it.
Serious question, how does them being based in China make them worse? I'd much rather have a foreign intelligence agency collect data on me than one in the country in which I live. It's not like I'd get extradited to China.
Yeah, the same goes for global warming "if I burn these tires nothing happens, like its not any warmer here", and then everyone does that and everyone loses on that.
I'm not sure I get the analogy? Like what's the global warming here?
Let me give you a quick example. Let's say that an LLM has pretty compelling evidence you're committing crimes based on what you've told it. Literally the worst case scenario thing DeepSeek could do is give that data to domestic law enforcement, which is something OpenAI is already doing.
Oh so you are more like "If I kill a man and run away to Russia, that means Russia is the good guy here, because I won't take any consequences", I think this topic is pretty undefined here, like many people may have different opinion on that, wheter a company should cooperate with government. But the thing is Deepseek has to coop, they have no option, and Deepseek is on the enemy side for us - west, thats why giving them data is like giving them money, data is money, you want China to get bigger, or your country? If you localhost, yeah it is far more better than any ClosedAI, but people don't do that, therefore you should be against using deepseek app and website if you care about interesr of your country.
I'm gonna split this up because it'll be a long reply, but I'm gonna reply to each part of your comment:
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If I kill a man and run away to Russia, that means Russia is the good guy here, because I won't take any consequences Murder is an easy example here. It's silly to compare valuing privacy from your government to homicide. Here's an example I'd use; given the current administrations recent anti-trans actions, let's say the federal government requests a list from OpenAI of all users who had talked to ChatGPT about feelings of gender dysmorphia so they can be put on a blacklist for federal employment, or fire them if they're closeted trans workers. And that could get a whole lot uglier than hiring/firing practices.
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many people may have different opinion on that, wheter a company should cooperate with governmen Not only does OpenAI reserve the right to work with law enforcement, OpenAI has plenty of lucrative federal contracts they wouldn't risk jeopardizing by being difficult with data requests. And that's all besides the fact the current CEO has expressed that he's totally open to working with the current administration.
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But the thing is Deepseek has to coop I really don't care if DeepSeek has to cooperate with the Chinese authorities. You still haven't given a concrete reason how that actually presents any kind of tangible risk to me.
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Deepseek is on the enemy side for us - west Enemy how? We're not at war. I have nothing against China or its citizens. I have absolutely no stake in whatever conflict you're talking about.
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you want China to get bigger, or your country Again, I truly don't care. I can't think of any reason I should care other than pure nationalism.
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you should be against using deepseek app and website if you care about interesr of your country. Okay, which do you think is the more likely scenario here:
A. China declares war on the US and somehow manages to defeat the single largest military in the world, plus all of it's allies, because they got some basic user data.
B. Domestic law enforcement / Federal US Government uses available data to target political dissidents and other "undesirables" (a tactic they've used on political activists in the past)
There's no reason to worry more about the potential surveillance of a country literally on the other side of the planet when your own country that actually has jurisdiction over you has access to that same data and far more methods to target you.
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