On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:44:02 -0500 Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
The Privacy Policy of the site is interesting. In the section on collected data it says that it collects the users "keystroke patterns or rhythms". Not sure how it does that short of hidden code on the web page. That might be a single policy used for both the mobile and web versions.
maybe also to abuse protect from other machine learning systems. For now this may still mean something, but systems are already adapting to type like humans so this policy may not help, protect or be of much use, in the future.
Sounds like it would be best to C&P the questions and feedback to it instead of typing it in directly.
It bears repeating that this applies to the version of DeepSeek hosted at Deepseek in China. One is not more required to use it this way than to run Wordpress at only wordpress.com...
It is possible to self-host an instance on a Windows or Linux PC. And while the full version requires some horsepower, a PC with enough RAM and GPU to run it can be assembled for about $7K. Out of reach of many hobbyists but not too far beyond the highest-end gaming systems. And "distilled" versions can run on far more-limited hardware <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sN1lB76EA>.
If you still want to use a cloud system but not deepseek, there are alternatives. The two Deepseek models were added this week to the menu of offerings at You.com to which I am a happy subscriber.
+1
- Evan