Makes sense in terms of public information. But the thing is if you use a foreign-hosted tech, you don’t know what is doing with ALL data you signed up with. You can use Chinese models hosted on US servers (like a together.ai – there are others). You’ll pay more than the native Chinese app sites, but will know that you aren’t feeding personal data into an ominous black hole. One simple example is to think what “dossier” they could build with your credit card data and search data. Nothing good can come from that.
And those US hosted versions of DeepSeek etc. are still far cheaper than the big (frontier) US companies... just not as cheap as the Chinese hosted sites.
I will check them out. I would always prefer keeping my data in the US. So far I haven’t used Deepseek for anything else but for future applications it will certainly create issues.
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Makes sense in terms of public information. But the thing is if you use a foreign-hosted tech, you don’t know what is doing with ALL data you signed up with. You can use Chinese models hosted on US servers (like a together.ai – there are others). You’ll pay more than the native Chinese app sites, but will know that you aren’t feeding personal data into an ominous black hole. One simple example is to think what “dossier” they could build with your credit card data and search data. Nothing good can come from that.
And those US hosted versions of DeepSeek etc. are still far cheaper than the big (frontier) US companies... just not as cheap as the Chinese hosted sites.
I will check them out. I would always prefer keeping my data in the US. So far I haven’t used Deepseek for anything else but for future applications it will certainly create issues.