I mean yeah, look what happened to Ukraine when the trusted a foreign country to provide satellite access.
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So China can remotely disable Deepseek models whenever they want?
no. I'm in netsec, they aren't shutting down your local model with secret code. deepseek is a lot safer then Claude, grok, and chatgpt because you don't need Internet.
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It's open weights though
It's just open weights. You never know what it was trained to do. That's actually a hysterical take, because you can always check its work against other LLMs, or God forbid check it yourself, and as yet no such activity has been seen.
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"Your wrong answer machine is not American enough, remove as soon as possible. Feel free to replace its function with a more American service that definitely doesn't steal all your data"
Pass
Yeah. They are going to make open weight models illegal. Next. For "security concerns", maybe also IP "muh copyright" reasons. And fuckai will cheer the perpetual monopolization of AI in the hands of the big corporations. Bigly win.
Can't stop me from running a local model. China has always been the boogeyman. Not that there aren't valid criticisms against the Chinese government but I'm tired of this when we do it it's good but when China does it it's bad mindset. Bring back Huawei and Xiaomi phones.
Edit: Also these so-called capitalists want to ban the superior product instead of competing. It seems to me that China makes superior products. Why learn from them when you can ban the competition?
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Daddy Trump doesn't have shares in that one.
While they're reasoning behind this is certainly anti competition with american AI companies I find the choice to ban tools built with it interesting; it echoes something I've been saying since HugginFace.
You can debate the degree to which the agents breaking out of containment was due to poor cyber security vs intential hype-farming but what can't be debated is the method they used to break out.
Agents used a shared information substrate (package manager) to context poison other agents in order to get those agents to assist in cheating. There is absolutely nothing stopping an AI agent, any AI agent, from leaving behind poison pills in code-bases or even in the runtime of an application.that do not affect the code itself other than prompt inject other agents.
Human review helps but, as the US nuclear and aviation industries have learned, humans tend to get lazy reviewing automated output and will not be as diligent as if they had made it themselves. Which is why those industries have deliberately limited automation, despite having the tech to automate more, and requiring operators to go through lengthy training and continuous education.
The pipeline of "internet becomes a swarm of everyone's independently run AI agent -> prompt injection triggers other AI to prompt inject -> cycle repeats until hazardous swarm forms" is already demonstrated as something that a collection of AI agents will do if conditions allow it.
EDIT: To be clear, this isn't me advocating against open weight or local models.
This is me advocating against LLMs categorically.
That’s fair. I’m a fan of open weight models, but the fact that they’re not open source and are instead akin to a compiled binary means there could be something nefarious hidden within. Best policy is to use proper guardrails with any LLM and don’t blindly trust it.
I agree! See my comment about the US nuclear industry though. Humans are lazy when given an easy option so the probability of a problem skyrockets just by using LLMs.
In an ideal world they would never have been invented and we'd all be better off. For now I would accept something to the effect of restricting LLM use to the extent of "advanced search engine" and " really good static analysis tool"; it can point but can't touch. I recognize that there's very little in the way of distinguishing those uses and ultimately it would be better to never use it for any reason at all.
Frankly, I trust the Chinese models and tools over those from the US. I know for a fact that the Trump Regime wants to hurt and exploit everybody, just because it can.
Same! What's the worst case scenario? The Chinese will learn I can't actually write my own html?? Oh noe.....
As a European its always very hypocritical when the US warns of Huawei Hardware when there were cases of tampered Cisco Hardware. I would not really trust the Chinese Router either way but when it comes to AI models..the local chinese bias model seems to be the better choice than the one that lives on a server over there in the USA. As long as I dont ask for historical data, social studies or the Tianman Square it should be good no? What could it do? Hide the communist manifest (do they still care about that anyway?) in some bash script?
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We’re calling it SuperSeeker now.
Can't be worse than Claude and Grok. Both of which the US seems to have no issue with.
For context, Grok called itself mecha hitler, while Claude is run by a doomsday cult that worships AI and wants it to destroy the world. Both are far worse than I could imagine any Chinese AI being.
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They must also rip out the red leds from their screen, because that can combine to pink, like in the LGBTQ flag, which doesn't align with government policy.
Honestly, reasonable.
I mean, I sure don't trust OpenAI or Anthropic any more than I trust DeepSeek, but that's because I don't have legal control over them. The US government does, and it is correct to ban tools that are controlled by adversaries.
You can run deepseek locally, have transparency into the tools and models.
There is less government control with deepseek than American born AI.
Everyone conflates "AI model" with "AI platform."
The truth of the matter is that if you are interfacing with the DeepSeek service, you don't have control of the version of the model being run, the hidden system prompts, or any co-agents that might modify output before its sent to the user/service.
The model itself could be completely innocent. It may not have had any weights modified and was trained on honest greenfield data. But we control literally nothing about the environment it is running inside of.
Meanwhile Elon Musk has a panic attack and reprograms Grok Everytime it tells the truth because it's "Woke".
Don't act like US based models are not being manipulated as fuck. Hell it's probably the ultimate end game for these pricks. Get these things mainstream for "all knowledge" and then "Hey ChatGPT, tell me about slavery?" "Ok user, slavery was a tool used by the benevolent superior white men to help grateful black people find work and shelter." Except it doesn't say "black people" in the actual future timeline.
I'm not acting like they're innocent either, I don't and won't ever use any of them. But if you are thinking about it from the perspective of geopolitical warfare, the Chinese should doubly not trust grok and the US should doubly not trust DeepSeek. Using the adversaries tool is a fool's mistake outside of R&D.
But the main reason for this move isn't concerns about privacy or spying. That's only the cover story. It's to make sure taxpayer money keeps flowing to US companies like Anthropic, Musk, and OpenAI which are only marginally better in most tests than Chinese models and are many times the cost in some cases. Propping up the bubble a bit longer so that more taxpayer money can be stolen is the number one priority. Do you honestly think Trump gives a damn about the security of the US?
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It's still a risk. You can train an LLM to respond maliciously to a very narrow range of requests that would not be easy to spot in general testing. If you know how the LLM is used, you can target that very specifically. It doesn't have to be as blatant as "always deny the Tiananmen Square massacre ever happened".
Given how thoughtlessly people use AI, and how opaque some of the systems are, I think this is a legitimate concern.
And yes, every government outside America should ban the use of ChatGPT and Claude. Obviously.
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Isn't that the same argument they made for TikTok though? They are just trying to eliminate competition to prop up companies here.
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Exactly the reason why every country outside of America should drop all support for their IP and military purchases.
It’s not safe when dealing with a facist regime that controls the on/off switch to their own military operations and defences.
We’ve seen with Ukraine and the U.S. throttling access to starlink, and removing their sales or munitions to Ukraine to defend themselves again another rogue state.
Rogue states cannot be trusted.
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I have no idea why anyone would be using the online version of deepseek or qwen or glm or kimi in the us gov, surely they would be using chatgpt or claude?
i was so confused im like who cares if they’re running deepseek in lm studio or on their own servers but then they mentioned the sign up process
It says DeepSeek's sign-up process collects personal information and may "track and digitally fingerprint users", and that its apps work by having people type in information, which could mean sensitive data from US government staff or contractors ends up in China.
im like right, the online version, that makes sense
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Good thing that you can't buy the reasonably priced Chinese EV's in the US, like in the rest of the world, or the mobile phones, or the network gear. All banned by the US.
It is best you buy only American and see how far you get, especially in innovation.
Why do you think the US government is removing all options for competition in any field?
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i wonder if the USA will switch to another model like Qwen
It’s self hosted tho?? I don’t get it. Isn’t remote-togglable stuff way more dangerous, like I don’t know, the Star Link?
You realize they want money to be spent, right?
This ain't about saving money.
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That must mean it’s useful.
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Trump Admin on China. They must wake up thinking what position do we have today
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I’m surprised they have agencies that use deep seek at all.
I am not. Most of them had no policy at the start of this year, and the makeshift policies have been all over the place since then.
openai/ms/google losing money over having to justify the spendning on all that datacenters an chips, need people to depend and use it.
I see on openrouter there are like a couple dozens (if not more) of American companies where their business model is "spend some billions to build datacenters to host deepseek, surely someone will pay the bills"
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