Open source, Deep Seek and Privacy in short

The guys at the Neuron sum it up like this:

Here’s why “open source” matters: DeepSeek as a competitor to OpenAI can be seen as also deeply untrustworthy; it’s failed multiple safety tests, its app has an overly invasive privacy policy (it’ll take whatever data you give it), and it’s a Chinese model that launched in the middle of an AI turf war between China and the US.