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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
    • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      I hope you won’t mind my question.

      The main issue with Deepseek is about censorship and privacy as the review suggests.

      I don’t use AI myself and have not read the article, but isn’t there censorship and privacy issue at play also with every single non-Chinese AI out there?

      I mean, can I ask one of those non-Chinese AI to make me, say, a pornographic image based on some famous person, or would it refuse? Could I ask a non-Chinese ‘how can I make a bomb powerful enough so I can blow This or that (whatever one would not legally own)’, or ‘How should I mount a coup to take hold of power in my country?’ or would it refuse to answer any of that? And then, subsidiary question, would any of these questions be reported to legal authorities?

      • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
        25·
        2 days ago

        @Libb@jlai.lu

        Just read the article, and don’t engage in whataboutery, or in asking questions that distract from the topic.

        There are many such reviews, and all of them point in the same direction.

        DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds

        Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s newest AI model, an updated version of the company’s R1 reasoning model […] might also be less willing to answer contentious questions, in particular questions about topics the Chinese government considers to be controversial […] China’s openly available AI models, including video-generating models such as Magi-1 and Kling, have attracted criticism in the past for censoring topics sensitive to the Chinese government, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre. In December, Clément Delangue, the CEO of AI dev platform Hugging Face, warned about the unintended consequences of Western companies building on top of well-performing, openly licensed Chinese AI.

        A second:

        Leaked files reveal how China is using AI to erase the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre

        More than 230 pages of censorship instructions prepared by Chinese social media platforms were shared by industry insiders with the [independent investigators]. The files reveal deep anxiety among Chinese authorities about the spread of any reference to the most violently suppressed pro-democracy movement in the country’s history […]

        There are many more from different, very reliable sources.

        Feel free to whatabout further, I won’t respond to such comments anymore.

        • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          Just read the article, and don’t engage in whataboutery, or in asking questions that distract from the topic.

          Thank you for reminding how to not waste my time, really.

      • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        I don’t see how this solves the censorship and privacy issue. If you search stuff in Chinese, the censorship and privacy issues are even stronger.