People are celebrating the fact that 200 engineers from China were able to undermine and expose OpenAi and the stockmarket at large with a side project. This is a huge win for people who care about FOSS. You can run deepseek on your personal computer if you don't want to send data to China/if you don't want deepseek to abide by Chinese law.
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Yes, but only very few people do that. Most people download the app and use the online service
Deepseek probably sells your data to data brokers. I can't help but admire DeepSeek's tactic of undermining through FOSS, though. DeepSeek opened Pandora's box for LLM innovation. If deepseek wasn't there, OpenAi would've kept hoarding GPU's and inflating prices. Yes they still collect your data and don't care about the customer but that's the baseline for tech brother.
Undermining big tech through FOSS*