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Can I "trust" DeepSeek? (lemmy.eco.br)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

'locally-running' means it is on your computer, will work without an internet connection

anything you access using the internet is not 'locally-running'

The comment means don't send information over the internet that you don't want to share.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks @[email protected] for filling OP in! I want to add a few things incase OP is unaware of more than just what you explained:

LLM = large language model, one of the types of AI. Examples: ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Meta's LLaMA

Open-Source: the program code of the AI is available to look at, in its entirety

If you are not sure if you understand these terms and what frightful_hobgoblin said, then just assume whatever AI you are using is going to share your chat with the company behind it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

open source is also very tricky with LLMs: i’d argue if you can’t recreate it from scratch, it’s not open source… deep seek does not contain all the data necessary to recreate it from scratch: it’s open weights (the model itself can be downloaded and run) but not open source… i’d classify it as free (as in beer) software; not open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Excellent addition, I agree!

That's the criteria of many FOSS catalogue repositories: they won't add any software that is not completely reproducible.