You can download.safetensors versions and run it yourself; safetensors files are just numbers, not code. And if the fear is of the fact that the Great Firewall is baked in, you can ablate it (the Qwen 32B distilled version of DeepSeek R1 has already been ablated).
getting downvoted for asking if anyone had actually run Wireshark to see if the "local" version was actually sending shit back or not. No one answered yes or no.
I do not understand why anyone default trusts a single thing which comes out of China with obvious ties to the CCP.
Curiously as an analog, how many millions of people use TicTok? [statista.com] If you look at that data you'll see a curious omission, no data from China. So an app that funnels data to the Chinese government isn't being used in China or they're purposely omitting the data from public scrutiny.
You can download .safetensors versions and run it yourself; safetensors files are just numbers, not code. And if the fear is of the fact that the Great Firewall is baked in, you can ablate it (the Qwen 32B distilled version of DeepSeek R1 has already been ablated).
Ya think?
But then again who can you trust?
getting downvoted for asking if anyone had actually run Wireshark to see if the "local" version was actually sending shit back or not. No one answered yes or no.
I do not understand why anyone default trusts a single thing which comes out of China with obvious ties to the CCP.
I agree.
Curiously as an analog, how many millions of people use TicTok? [statista.com]
If you look at that data you'll see a curious omission, no data from China. So an app that funnels data to the Chinese government isn't being used in China or they're purposely omitting the data from public scrutiny.
Or TikTok isn't available in China, which makes sense because any social network in China is going to run into problems with censorship.
And that's exactly what happened: TikTok isn't available in China. No conspiracy theory needed.