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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 days ago

Your devices keyboard app has been collecting all of your keystrokes.

[-] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 days ago

Billions of folk's keyboards are connected to the internet and the vast majority of them have no idea. It's absolutely ludicrous that we've gotten to this stage with surveillance capitalism. Internet-connected keyboards are malware, plain and simple.

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[-] MidWestKhagan@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 days ago

And? This anti China propaganda is falling apart.

[-] 0x520@slrpnk.net 51 points 2 days ago

At least its not stored on american servers.

[-] JonEFive@midwest.social 18 points 2 days ago

I feel like Meta could do a ton more damage with my information than Tencent

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

If I’m typing into the app, is that really collecting keystrokes?

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And why is that an issue? It's typing data sent to a language model. What nefarious info might they be looking for? Learning to imitate humans? Fingerprinting? Making the best virtual keyboard asmr?

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[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago
[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No.

As opposed to Microsoft, Google, .. NSA, or GCHQ servers. Or all of the above.

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[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not surprised at all why would I? Don't act like other AI services is privacy focused. It's all same. THEY ALL COLLECT DATA.

But good thing about is deepseek is you can run locally unlike Closed AI Chat GPT. No need to use shitty app.

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 2 days ago
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[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 92 points 2 days ago

This is probably only a problem with the online version. In contrast to google and openAI they, like meta, let you download the model and run it offline, where they can't access any of this data I presume.

[-] 0x01@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 days ago

I've been running it locally using ollama, works completely offline, no keystroke data for anyone!

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[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 76 points 2 days ago

They all do this...

Don't use hosted models unless you pay for your own server space and it is encrypted.

Don't be a fucking idiot.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day 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.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago

If you think the American companies do anything different you're not paying attention and simply believing the propaganda.

[-] leanleft@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago

other ai services do too. u might not realize it.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anyone using DeepSeek as a service the same way proprietary LLMs like ChatGPT are used is missing the point. The game-changer isn’t that a Chinese company like DeepSeek can compete with OpenAI and its ilk—it’s that, thanks to DeepSeek, any organization with a few million dollars to train and host their own model can now compete with OpenAI.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

When you don't understand how a web app works. 🤦

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

Does TikTok access my wifi network? 😤

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago

Doubtful, since it's both open source and you can run it locally. This seems more like a smear piece.

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[-] mat@jlai.lu 48 points 2 days ago

Same as Chrome's magic bar, or android keyboard no ? So in the end, does USA doing it good because "democracy" (never ever with napalm) when China is bad because human rights violation (USA never did anything like this) ?

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

No I’m not surprised at all. This is necessary for any kind of auto save and auto complete. Not happy about my shit being stored in China, but “collects every keystroke” isn’t really news anymore.

If you’re worried about this kind of behavior, don’t use any website with auto save or auto complete, period.

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