Recent DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM models have impressive results in benchmarks. Do you use them through their own chatbots? Do you have any concerns about what happens to the data you put in there? If so, what do you do about it?

I am not trying to start a flame war around the China subject. It just so happens that these models are developed in China. My concerns with using the frontends also developed in China stem from:

  • A pattern that many Chinese apps in the past have been found to have minimal security
  • I don’t think any of the 3 listed above let you opt out of using your prompts for model training

I am also not claiming that non-China-based chatbots don’t have privacy concerns, or that simply opting out of training gets you much on the privacy front.

  • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I been running Deepseek and Gemma locally recently but like to hop to whatever tops the charts and I can manage to run at home. If I need to do anything with a big model I got a few API credits for Mistral but try to avoid it.

    I don’t like using anything online, especially out of China or the US. If I got to use one online I treat it as publicly posted because we have no privacy.