Deepseek Unmasked [pdf]

What a pointed title. That aside, I am rather surprised that a committee's investigation report is this light on what in my opinion are fundamental details, including the make-up of the committee, the members' respective duties and the course of the investigative process. Notwithstanding the potentially political raison d'etre of the report, is that customary for Congressional committees?

Dang, you really can make anything sound scary if you use the right language!<p>1. ChatGPT funnels your data to American Intelligence Agencies through backend infrastructure subject to U.S. Government National Security Letters (NSLs) that allow for secret collection of customer data by the US Department of Defense.<p>2. ChatGPT covertly manipulates the results it presents to align with US propaganda, as a result of the widely disseminated Propaganda Model and close ties between OpenAI&#x27;s leadership and the US Government.<p>3. It is highly likely that OpenAI used unlawful model training techniques to create its model, stealing from leading international news sources, academic institutions, and publishing houses.<p>4. OpenAI’s AI model appears to be powered by advanced chips manufactured by Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC and reportedly utilizes tens of thousands of chips that are manufactured by a Trade War adversary of America and subject to a 32% import duty.

As a non American, all of these don’t seem to be any worse than US based models?

It&#x27;s shocking how much American soft power diminished in such a short period. White House documents used to mean something, had a certain weigh, whereas now some of them are simply ridiculous. This one in particular is not particularly bad even. Although we know who inspired it and that, given the fact that DeepSeek made their models available and OpenAI didn&#x27;t, whatever is written should be taken with more than one grain of salt.

What&#x27;s interesting is that most of this is applicable to proprietary US models when used by non-US users, too. &quot;Stores data in the US&quot;? Yes. &quot;Complies with approved narratives&quot;? Check. &quot;Cooperates with intelligence services and the military&quot;? Check. The only real solution here are open weights, and Deepseek is the strongest open-weights model to this day. Don&#x27;t like it? Compete.

The Sinophobia going through America is a form of insanity causing America to do enormous harm to itself.<p>From banning open source software to destroying the business of its largest and most profitable companies.

In journalism it&#x27;s called a hit piece, and this one is particularly low-quality. Embarrassing.

Sinophobic junk. You got shown up by a free and open model and wasted a gazillion dollars, good job. So yes let’s ban the competition and force Americans to use the junky ad riddled cheap clones.

As someone in Europe, I sometimes wonder what’s worse: letting US companies use my data to target ads, or handing it to Chinese companies where I have no clue what’s being done with it. With one I at least get an open source model. The other is a big black box.

As long as I can run it on my own cheap hardware I’ll be using it. Our contracts with some of our customers is that their data never leaves our servers.

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Looks like Deepseek is having it&#x27;s Tiktok moment!

Everybody is spying on everybody, it&#x27;s free for all....if you want to be out of the reach, either stop using software for sensitive information and communication or start using fully encrypted products. Cryptography is the key.

It&#x27;s important to distinguish the DeepSeek App from the open-weight models, which are released under very liberal licenses, and you have full control of where data fed to the model goes, e.g. stays in the USA.

Summary: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;reports&#x2F;deepseek-unmasked-exposing-ccps-latest-tool-spying-stealing-and-subverting-us-export" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;reports&#x2F;deep...</a>

It&#x27;s interesting that they call out NVIDIA specifically as an enabler. MAGA going to war against NVIDIA now?

Wohoo. Better token throughput for europeans...

&quot;.. siphons data back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC)&quot;<p>How does that work when I run the model myself?<p>Cry me a river, you tried to build a massive moat to force the rest of the world to suck you off for access and now you got caught with your pants down by a model that has been given out for free.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t want to know how the US would use the discovery of cold fusion or a cure for all to make a profit for its elite instead of giving it out for the greater good.