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DeepSeek found to be sharing user data with TikTok parent company ByteDance
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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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This is the web chat client/app, just like OpenAI sharing data with Microsoft, or Copilot doing the same. If you self host these LLMs your data stays within your LAN.
You can't practically self-host Deepseek R1.
Look, I use the 32B distil on my 3090 every day, but it is not the same thing as full R1. And people need to stop conflating the two.
And (theoretically) API usage through one of many R1 providers is private.
Do you know of a provider is actually private? The few privacy policies I checked all had something like "We might keep some of your data for some time for anti-abuse or other reasons"...
I mean, not with certainty. If the risk of your input leaking is that great, you can just host your own VM with the 32B to be more certain.
Trust me bro, they are private