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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This is my total lack of surprise.

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

Yeah whatever, everyone collects it now. Since it gets stored by a fascist state either way, who gives a fuck?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They're desperate to manufacture consent against their competition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Idk DeepSeek probably just stores things in the history of my Terminal window.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Isn't it open source? If so it should be near trivial to get rid of all of that.

If it's closed source I wouldn't touch it with a tej foot pole, it's the same reason I rarely use chat gpt, it's just freely giving away your personal data to open AI.

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