Chatgpt is already blocked.
Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk
shirro@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Meanwhile our governments services and tenders practically demand US software and services provided by US companies on US controlled hosting. I haven’t seen any good use for LLMs beyond being an amusement but downloading the Deepseek model to run locally is absolutely safe and local models is all anyone should be using with any data where they have a responsibility, ethical or legal, to maintain privacy and security. And it you are doing things properly and everything is local then Deepseek reportedly has some efficiency advantages that make it worth considering over alternatives.
Once again Australia does whatever its told. I kind of understand when it is the mining barrons or real estate developers given they do at least make some economic contribution to the country. But I have no idea why we suck off US tech bros when all they do is lower our productivity by addicting us to crap products, corrupt our democracy and extort rent from us for the privilege.
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
… doing things properly and everything is local then Deepseek reportedly has some efficiency advantages that make it worth considering over alternatives
DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally (lemmy.sdf.org/post/28978937), and this is just one issue among many others.
Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 hour ago
You’re right but Australian decisionmakers will never care, because IT infrasctucture is as now as political as what rifle is selected for the army. They’re fully plugged into Uncle Sam’s economic matrix, and that’s what will ultimately see Australia left behind on AI and a host of other technology self-sufficiencies, kept a minor second-hand innovator and permanent technology customer rather than exporter. Lobbying and the compliance industry aim to keep it like that.
In my years of earning a salary I have never once seen a department I worked in procure a product that wasn’t the biggest, safest American name. Ever. Oracle, Salesforce, MS, etc. every time.
The empire may change but Australian subservience remains conscious and deliberate (just like much of Europe tbh)