This article is what US propaganda looks like folks. Mashable should be ashamed.

Literally all AI companies do this to run their services. Except you can actually download Deepseek and run it completely securely on your own devices. You know who doesn’t allow that security? OpenAI and the other US companies currently being screwed.

as opposed to OpenAI which also stores keystrokes and then sells them to anyone who’d pay?

the company states that it may share user information to "comply with applicable law, legal process, or government requests.

Literally every company’s privacy policy here in the US basically just says that too.

Not only does DeepSeek collect “text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content that [the user] provide[s] to our model and Services,” but it also collects information from your device, including “device model, operating system, keystroke patterns or rhythms, IP address, and system language.”

Breaking news, company with chatbot you send messages to uses and stores the messages you send, and also does what practically every other app does for demographic statistics gathering and optimizations.

Companies with AI models like Google, Meta, and OpenAI collect similar troves of information, but their privacy policies do not mention collecting keystrokes. There’s also the added issue that DeepSeek sends your user data straight to Chinese servers.

They didn’t use the word keystrokes, therefore they don’t collect them? Of course they collect keystrokes, how else would you type anything into these apps?

In DeepSeek’s privacy policy, there’s no mention of the security of its servers. There’s nothing about whether data is encrypted, either stored or in transmission, and zero information about safeguards to prevent unauthorized access.

This is the only thing that seems disturbing to me, compared to what we’d like to expect based on the context of what DeepSeek is. Of course, this was proven recently in practice to be terrible policy, so I assume they might shore up their defenses a bit.

All the articles that talk about this as if it’s some big revelation just boil down to “company does exactly what every other big tech company does in America, except in China”

They should store the data in US servers like OpenAI does. Apparently then Mashable won’t write an article about it.

The criticism thrown at DeepSeek in the past days is just as applicable to American AI models. But when that was brought up it in the past it was “making things political”.

At least I can run DeepSeek locally.

Oh my, just wait until you learn what Facebook and Google do…

Just host it yourself?

Yes, I’m going to be lectured on privacy by people who are still on twitter.

Like every app you have doesn’t collect keystrokes data?

Did they become american company?

Well, at least models are downloadable.

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.

No, this is just propaganda

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!

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

it is open-source, if they did something like this, we would know it for sure