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

[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

[leanleft@lemmy.ml]

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

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

portmaster?

[euphoma@lemmy.ml]

That doesn't affect people not in china or not bordering china.

[walnutlum@lemmy.ml]

Or open source groups can make a fully open repro of it:
https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1

[walnutlum@lemmy.ml]

You're going to have to learn python.

Here's a good overview:
https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/training

[stink@lemmygrad.ml]

If you don't know what you are doing please stop trying to act like an expert in the subject.

[yogthos@lemmy.ml]

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

[yogthos@lemmy.ml]

Yeah, but these are wholesome domestic spy agencies that are just looking after you and protect you from yourself.

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Could they? Probably. Would it be valuable to an AI company? Probably not. Like most startups, they're mostly shipping a minimal product as quick as possible.

[deadcatbounce@reddthat.com]

Fuck. They told me that they were storing my backups.

[treeghost@lemm.ee]

I'm not here to defend the Chinese government or anything, but there is an argument to be made that the US has an equivalency to each one of these things.

CCP officials at tech companies - NSA backdoors

Uyghur slaves - Prison labor aka war on drugs

Taiwan - Gaza/Literally any "3rd world" nation with oil

Censorship - Right wing media empires/red state bills targeted to downplay US atrocities taught in schools

Retaliation against protestors - Police brutality
Social media censorship - Oligarchs owned social media

I think a lot of people are less falling for Chinese propaganda and more overcoming US propaganda.

[yogthos@lemmy.ml]

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

No, not legally anyway.