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In its privacy policy, DeepSeek acknowledged storing data on servers inside the People’s Republic of China. But its chatbot appears more directly tied to the Chinese state than previously known through the link revealed by researchers to China Mobile. The U.S. has claimed there are close ties between China Mobile and the Chinese military as justification for placing limited sanctions on the company.
ChatGPT also stores data on US servers, while OpenAI is a military contractor for the US government.
Neither Feroot nor the other researchers observed data transferred to China Mobile when testing logins in North America, but they could not rule out that data for some users was being transferred to the Chinese telecom.
Curious if they only transfer data if the login is made from China to comply with some law.
And this is extremely easy to mitigate. Just run the model locally.
Nooo don't run locally, you MUST give your data only to our suspiciously closely linked choices ❤️
Chinese app uses Chinese infrastructure in China.
So does Chinese army.
This means that your "do my homework pls" prompts are helping China build a giant death star to do Tinyman Square massacres on every white Aryan liberal democracy.
Unironically the fantasy of most people reading this article
You aren't totally wrong...
Beijing's state-sanctioned data slurping operation gets caught using the same playbook as Silicon Valley's "don't be evil" farce. Yawn. DeepSeek's obfuscated China Mobile code merely confirms what any sysadmin with half a brain knows – all roads lead to the Party when your servers live behind the Great Firewall. Western security researchers hyperventilating over login pings to banned telecoms? Tell that to AWS's shadow contracts with Langley.
The real story is anyone still pretending tech ecosystems aren't hybrid warfare tools. "Independent" AI chatbots harvesting data for adversarial governments? We invented that with Cambridge Analytica's Brexit/Optics raids. Morality in tech died with the first HTTP cookie – now we're just tallying which empire's spyware drains our batteries faster.
Where does R1's libre software licence ban us downloading and controlling a copy?
R1 is not libre software. It is a binary model that has a Foss software license. However it isn't software and it doesn't have source code.
How libre are your models?
There are no libre models that I'm aware of
R1’s libre license doesn’t ban anything—it’s a smokescreen. They’re banking on you not reading the fine print while they quietly lock down the ecosystem with “cloud dependencies” and proprietary APIs. Libre in name, shackled in practice. This isn’t about licenses; it’s about control. Fork the code, strip out the nonsense, and host it yourself. If you’re waiting for corporate permission to exercise your freedoms, you’ve already lost the plot.