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Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk

Tau@aussie.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You’d have to be mad to put important information into any AI model unless you’re hosting it locally and know it isn’t sending info anywhere (the latter being the hard part to verify). All of the online AI services really should be blocked if departments/companies are taking security seriously.

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eureka@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You’d have to be mad to

Yes, but at the same time, an astounding amount of people are mad when it comes to tech.

My mate in IT says just this month someone in their corpo office used their work email to sign up to a malicious fake copy of a piracy website. If they were reusing the same password, that could let a hacker into the company account, let alone any other things that employee signed up to on that work email.

That doesn’t even cover the people posting things they shouldn’t on facegram.

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- Tau@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That is unfortunately true, for example I find it sadly impressive that one has a good chance of getting classified info simply by starting an argument on the War Thunder forums…
  
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  - eureka@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m still impressed by how many times it’s happened.
    
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Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What about Mistral? chat.mistral.ai/chat

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- Tau@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not familiar with them, though I did just have a quick browse of wikipedia and their privacy page. From that minimal impression I’d rate their online service as better than DeepSeek (they do claim your data is not used for training, stored in Sweden, encrypted, and deleted after 30 days) but ultimately it’s still got the same problem as other providers in that you have to just believe they’ll actually follow what they say they do. For use with your own personal info this might be an acceptable risk if the company seems reputable otherwise, on the other end of the scale for anything security classified it’d be way too much risk.
  
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  - Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yep, we have sh.itjust.works/c/localllama may as well use it, don’t see why not
    
    Especially with LM Studio/ollama able to run on a headless server
    
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