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DeepSeek Review: A Middling Chatbot With Profound Privacy Issues (www.pcmag.com)

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Use Ollama to run deepseek locally. No censorship, no data leakage, can be run without network connectivity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

No, DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally

There’s an idea floating around that DeepSeek’s well-documented censorship only exists at its application layer but goes away if you run it locally (that means downloading its AI model to your computer). But DeepSeek’s censorship is baked-in, according to a Wired investigation which found that the model is censored on both the application and training levels [...]

Addition:

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When I asked about Tiananmen Square events it answered with a correct historical context. Or who looks like Winnie the Poo. Haven't used the app but colleagues that tried found it censored. Not sure those "journalists" did any actual investigation.

You can find it out yourself. Download ollama and deepseek locally, turn off network connectivity and ask it about Tiananmen or other potentially censored information.

https://interconnect.substack.com/p/was-zuck-right-about-chinese-ai-models

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