# DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China | Wired

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/deepseek-s-popular-ai-app-is-explicitly-sending-us-data-to-china-wired/24658
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**Created:** 2025-02-03T20:36:26Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @KevPham — 2025-02-03T20:36:26Z

> **[DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China](https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-ai-china-privacy-data/)**
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> Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.

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## Post 2 by @KevPham — 2025-02-03T20:38:18Z

Another related article…

> **[Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data](https://www.wired.com/story/exposed-deepseek-database-revealed-chat-prompts-and-internal-data/)**
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> China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records, including user data and API keys, in an open database.

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## Post 3 by @win11.shading291 — 2025-02-05T18:09:00Z

Isn’t DeepSeek = hugging chat? I believe Hugging chat was recommended here somewhere? Maybe that should be removed.

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## Post 4 by @CyberOtter — 2025-02-05T20:20:15Z

Nope, theses articles talk about the newish LLM models V3 & R1 hosted by the chinese firm Deepseek. The privacy issues stem from the cloud version. You can download the weights for V3 & R1 from huggingface for free and run it locally on your devices without the privacy implications.

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## Post 5 by @xe3 — 2025-02-05T21:08:09Z

> [@win11.shading291](#):
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> Isn’t DeepSeek = hugging chat?

Deepseek =/= Hugging Chat.

But a Deepseek “Distill” is one of the options available on Huggingface/Huggingchat.

> **List of currently available models on HuggingChat**
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> > Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
> > 
> > meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
> > 
> > CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024
> > 
> > deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
> > 
> > nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF
> > 
> > Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview
> > 
> > Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct
> > 
> > meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct
> > 
> > NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B
> > 
> > mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
> > 
> > microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

(the media coverage, and the popular discourse around Deepseek is fairly confusing at the moment since most of the discourse doesn’t do a good job differentiating between Deepseek _the open source model_ & Deepseek _the app and cloud hosted service_ & Deepseek “_distills_” [[1]](#footnote-78901-1)

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1. A “distilled version” of a model refers to a process in machine learning called knowledge distillation. It involves taking a large, complex model (called the teacher model) and transferring its knowledge into a smaller, more efficient model (called the student model). The distilled model is trained to mimic the predictions of the larger model while maintaining much of its accuracy. [↩︎](#footnote-ref-78901-1)