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South Korea says DeepSeek transferred user data to China and the U.S. without consent (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is this news?

Literally this is a set up for data gathering and idiots keep using these hosted LLM products without care.

If you ain't running it yourself with a proper set up, your shit is being data mined

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

I just wish everyone understood that these companies are not making money out of the model's output, but rather from the user's inputs.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the app/website.

However, isn't DeepSeek also Open Source software? I doubt that also sends data to China.

Ed Zitron says it works just as well/bad as silicon valley's toys but needs only a fraction of the resources, and the tech bros have their knickers in a twist.

So I'm a bit skeptical when american corporate media bashes deepseek.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure open AI will just "borrow" their code and a new release will magically be just as efficient

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly.

But Ed said you could also use your own models, train it yourself.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you don't want your locally hosted deep seek to send days to China, just setup a firewall and you're done

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know, I'm just saying that if the software (not the dataset) calls home, you can either modify the software, which is hard to do right, or you just easily block it with a firewall

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

In other news: Water Wet

[–] Kobo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

... and the whole world is SHOCKED!

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

& the USA ? Wow