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Proton's very biased article on Deepseek (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Article: https://proton.me/blog/deepseek

Calls it "Deepsneak", failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.

I can't speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think they are that biased. They say in the article that ai models from all the leading companies are not private and shouldn’t be trusted with your data. The article is focusing on Deepseek given that’s the new big thing. Of course, since it’s controlled by China that makes data privacy even less of a thing that can be trusted.

Should we trust Deepseek? No. Should we trust OpenAI? No. Should we trust anything that is not developed by an open community? No.

I don’t think Proton is biased, they are explaining the risks with Deepseek specifically and mention how Ai’s aren’t much better. The article is not titled “Deepseek vs OpenAI” or anything like that. I don’t get why people bag on proton when they are the biggest privacy focused player that could (almost) replace google for most people!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly.

Also, none of the article applies if you run the model yourself, since the main risk is whatever the host does with your data. The model itself has no logic.

I would never use a hosted AI service, but I would probably use a self hosted one. We are trying a few models out at work and we're hosting it ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

True, hosting deepseek yourself is much better. I'd still wait and see if anyone finds weird stuff in the code itself but tbh idk how long that could take.

Can't wait for the models to get better and hopefully stay open source!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

weird stuff in the code

What code? We use a different runner for the model so we can run multiple different AI models, so the only thing we're getting from DeepSeek is the model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I just meant generally, not sure what 'open source' means in the context of ai (not a programmer)