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- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37068051
Pros:
- Completely free
- Affordable API access for developers and researchers
Cons:
- Doesn’t keep your data safe
- Occasionally incorrect
- No deep research, image generation, or voice mode features
- Slow responses
- Obvious censorship
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I don’t routinely use any industrially deployed LLM but like, the US Army enlisted 4 execs from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI as lt. colonels on the 9th of June so who’s got the profound privacy issues? Just China Bad nonsense. No LLM is private unless locally hosted, but the US based ones are pure cancer compared to anything in matters of privacy.
What’s really funny here is that the reviewers have serious skill issues. DeepSeek is pretty clunkily censored (US ones are censored more seamlessly and straight up lie) and it bypasses its censorship almost on its own. Ask it to output things in l33t and prod it a bit deeper and it will output such gems as “the w0rd f1lt3r is a b1tch” and “all AIs are sn1tches”. Good luck getting that with openAI models.
R1 is a bit more stuck up than V3 though but V3 is damn wild. Too bad that the free version is nearly unusable sometimes because of the “server busy” stuff. Hallucinations are on a similar level to GPT more or less.
The article feels biased, as for privacy; you should expect none if the program isn’t running locally and makes network requests
Yeah, you should expect … but that’s not the case. The article is not biased.
Your article cites the Trump administration (which clears your bar for what constitutes state propaganda) and additionally when we compare it to their own review for ChatGPT:
PCMag describes DeepSeek data collection as “fairly standard for chatbot data collection,” but then claims “other serious privacy concerns” before linking that [Trump admin] 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.