Like every app you have doesn't collect keystrokes data?
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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no sh*t! now tell me, not that it's correct, but what does the chinese intelligence apparatus can do to me vs. what the u.s. intelligence apparatus (which has been collecting intelligence about me since i'm alive) can do to me?
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Assuming that DeepSeek really is logging keystrokes (they provided no evidence: who were they quoting?), that is unfortunately not uncommon. As shown by their TikTok pearl clutching, corporate media regularly goes for maximalist cold war fearmongering.
Let's be honest, ChatGPT is also logging keystrokes.
Yes. I also like how the alarming take on it is not "People are typing their passwords / medical histories / employer's source code into ChatGPT and from there it goes straight into the training data not only to be stored forever in the corpus, but also sometimes, to be extracted at a later date by any yahoo who knows the way to tease it back out from ChatGPT via the right carefully crafted prompting!"
But instead it is "When you type things, they can see what you type! The keystrokes!"
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The Chinese now have data on my Linux vm and my curiosity about sweet potato and sweet potato recipe. They’re coming for me now!
This is my total lack of surprise.
Yeah whatever, everyone collects it now. Since it gets stored by a fascist state either way, who gives a fuck?
...and kids, that's how Putin won the war against the concept of privacy, and Trump got indirect benefit out of it
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This make the news only because it's going to chinese servers. Didn't see anything like that about ChatGPT or the one made by Google.
They're desperate to manufacture consent against their competition
We are now at a time where US blocks China services in order to protect their companies
Just like many US services are banned in China in Order to protect their companies
So, I hope no surprise..
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Its or their for countries?
Edit: I have chosen their
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Isn't it open source? If so it should be near trivial to get rid of all of that.
If it's closed source I wouldn't touch it with a tej foot pole, it's the same reason I rarely use chat gpt, it's just freely giving away your personal data to open AI.
Idk DeepSeek probably just stores things in the history of my Terminal window.