Article: https://proton.me/blog/deepseek

Calls it “Deepsneak”, failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.

I can’t speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.

  • JOMusic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    114·
    12 hours ago

    This is true. However, Proton’s big sell is that they can be trusted to be truthful about what is safe and what is not safe for your privacy.

    I think given the context of the CEO’s personal bias towards current US Republicans, and given that those Republicans are aggressively anti-China, when Proton releases an article warning of a successful Chinese AI, and seemingly purposefully leaves out the part about how people are already running it securely, it starts raising some important questions about their alignment.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      Proton’s big sell is that they can be trusted to be truthful about what is safe and what is not safe for your privacy.

      Which somebody who can be trusted wouldn’t ever do.

      Businesses sell goods, services, deals, not truth.

      And privacy is not about trust.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Exactly. If a company can be trusted to provide privacy respecting products, they’ll come with receipts to prove it. Likewise, if they claim something else respects or doesn’t respect privacy, I likewise expect receipts.

        They did a pretty good job here, but the article only seems to apply to the publicly accessible service. If you download it and run it through your runner of choice, you’re good. A privacy minded individual would probably already not trust new hosted services.