DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers

[sir_kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Bro you can stop that narrative. The truth is out now.

[deadcatbounce@reddthat.com]

No.

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

[ulrich@feddit.org]

...which truth came out? They don't have CCP officials required by law to work at tech companies and disclose any and all data they acquire? They're not using Uyghur slaves in their factories? They're not trying to literally erase Taiwan off the maps? They're not still censoring information about their horrific pasts? They're not targeting, retaliating against and kidnapping protestors domestic and abroad? They're not censoring virtually every US social website entirely from the entire country? Please bring me up to speed.

[jackattack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Not quite on topic but semi related... It's reasons like this that I started reading privacy policies many times before signing up for a service.

People would be surprised at some of the extremely concerning things are listed in there. Some is for good reason but some stuff is absolutely unnecessary and should be an issue for some people.

[sir_kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This is amazing!

[filister@lemmy.world]

Let the witch hunt begin.

[dearth@lemmy.world]

Seriously this. Nothing that China is accused of doing is any worse than what i know America has done. If it's the Chinese Communist Party stealing your data at least you know it won't be used to inject ads everywhere you go on the internet

[horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world]

https://www.smartprix.com/bytes/how-to-run-deepseek-ai-locally-on-your-phone-2-methods/

[max_p@lemmy.max-p.me]

At least they're transparent about it, unlike american companies that hide behind convoluted terms of services and then sell the data behind your back but it's technically legal.

China's like "yeah we collect everything". I can appreciate the honesty.

[circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org]

This "China's AI is taking your data and that's bad" is shockingly similar to "TikTok is taking your data and that's bad". Lots of US counterparts do the same thing, but I don't see (as much) media coverage about that.

Don Draper: "no no no, everyone else's cigarettes are dangerous. Lucky Strikes are... toasted."

[mspencer712@programming.dev]

As a US citizen, I support some things that help rich people in the US win when competing with rich people in China.

[frozenspinach@lemmy.ml]

The truth is out now.

What truth? Who talks like this and thinks it means something?

[sir_kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

For the past week the people of China and the United States, as well as other countries have been comparing notes. Debunking propaganda on both sides. Realizing that much of what we've all been told for years/decades, has been lies.

[taiyang@lemmy.world]

Ok, so they'll ban it under that guise to appease US companys, same as TikTok. I really didn't care about TikTok since it's all brain rot to me but this might actually be a tool I'll use if it's as efficient as they say.

Good thing I can run it locally, I guess.

[chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The way I think of it is, I don't live in China, so regardless of my objections to their values or human rights abuses, why would CCP or an affiliated company care about me or ruin my life on the basis of or by abusing my data? A big part of why I care about privacy is I don't want to be filtering my every thought through consideration of whether the powers that be would approve, and US companies are way more relevant to that.

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

I don't see this as the USA turning into China. China has many problematic aspects, and being an immigrant or an LGBTQ+ person in China is probably not fun, but China at this point is less stupid and understands competitiveness. China would not defund all its science overnight, hamstring its technology and trash its whole economy with tariffs on goods it cannot produce domestically, withdraw vaccines in the face of new epidemics, and cancel sustainable energy projects and funding while denying climate science.

[jessica@discuss.tchncs.de]

Just use little snitch, open snitch or simple wall depending on your operating system and block the outbound connection if one ever occurs

[zedotelhado@lemmy.world]

Thanks, managed to have it installed locally his pocket pal (termux was giving me errors constantly on compile).
Out of curiosity, I made a very "interesting" prompt, and frankly I am not even surprised

[ayaya@lemdro.id]

This is mildly pedantic but you're not actually running Deepseek R1, you're running a 7B version of Qwen that's been fine-tuned on Deepseek R1 outputs. All of the "distilled" models are existing models trained on R1.

[zedotelhado@lemmy.world]

Nice catch. I'll be sure after do run the real thing