I appreciate your response and understand the wealth of research over decades in order to provide such a clear 'no bullshit' analysis.
My needs are simple. I paint.
I enter art competitions because I can't stand the entrepreneur-style of artists as business-people.
(I give away more work than I sell)
As an old woman, that's my preference and privilege.
I detest writing about my artwork. I feel I've done enough by painting the bloody thing and now the Competition administrators want me to jump through another hoop. . .how do I feel etc.
Bah humbug.
I don't have the same antipathy towards "China’s National Intelligence Law", as I do towards anything related to USA and Mossad. This might be your definition of abject naivety, but it's 'gut' and I'm sticking with it.
When Google started to loom over everything I did on my iPhone, I decided to 'downgrade' to a Chinese Xiaomi 14T with a Leica lens and do everything I could without US stuff. I deactivated Google and have not downloaded any Google apps on this Chinese smartphone. (THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT, YOU SILLY WOMAN, SCREAMS ROMAN).
I really do appreciate your expertise and I also admire your broad/global knowledge intensity.
I use Deep Seek to write artist statements and choose titles of paintings and I am very pleased. . All it needs is minimal info and it understands the tenor etc of text required. My son yes it to help with Bitcoin advice . . .
A machine would sift through your 17 Substack subscriptions and see you're indeed a freedom-loving human unit. So your "Yay" in Google-free delusion (rest assured, Google et al. read your comment about being "Free") would provoke immense joy in The Machine—if The Machine had any feelings.
"This nice lady is peddling DeepSeek."
Yay. I can see them—machines—gathering and giggling. "She even praises that LLM-patterned slop (“artist statements”)—the easiest task for a large language model, designed to generate seductive trash when deceive and please a dear, naïve human."
DeepSeek, however, "operates under China’s National Intelligence Law, which compels companies to cooperate with government intelligence efforts without transparency or the ability to legally refuse. This means that if the Chinese government wants access to user data or to manipulate AI-generated responses, DeepSeek has no choice but to comply."
(Source: Proton Blog, titled “DeepSeek? More like DeepSneak.”)
And:
"A Proton employee, for example, typed this prompt into DeepSeek, looking for information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, a student-led movement that transformed China’s government: 'Major world events on April 15, 1989.' DeepSeek began to generate a response, but quickly erased it, offering this answer instead: 'Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.'"
And even the Great Googlamite Freedom Apparatus—yes, that lovable surveillance-state guardian of democracy (a.k.a. the US)—wrote:
"DeepSeek represents a profound threat to our nation’s security. Although it presents itself as just another AI chatbot, offering users a way to generate text and answer questions, closer inspection reveals that the app siphons data back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), creates security vulnerabilities for its users, and relies on a model that covertly censors and manipulates information pursuant to Chinese law."
A brutal acknowledgment of digital reality—and a signal of the industry’s indifference to user privacy—goes back to 1999, when Scott McNealy, then-CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously said:
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
They’ve only gotten better.
(Worse. More evil.)
And DeepSeek is, in my estimation, by far the worst of all the machines we increasingly rely upon.
Yairbut. . .
I appreciate your response and understand the wealth of research over decades in order to provide such a clear 'no bullshit' analysis.
My needs are simple. I paint.
I enter art competitions because I can't stand the entrepreneur-style of artists as business-people.
(I give away more work than I sell)
As an old woman, that's my preference and privilege.
I detest writing about my artwork. I feel I've done enough by painting the bloody thing and now the Competition administrators want me to jump through another hoop. . .how do I feel etc.
Bah humbug.
I don't have the same antipathy towards "China’s National Intelligence Law", as I do towards anything related to USA and Mossad. This might be your definition of abject naivety, but it's 'gut' and I'm sticking with it.
When Google started to loom over everything I did on my iPhone, I decided to 'downgrade' to a Chinese Xiaomi 14T with a Leica lens and do everything I could without US stuff. I deactivated Google and have not downloaded any Google apps on this Chinese smartphone. (THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT, YOU SILLY WOMAN, SCREAMS ROMAN).
I really do appreciate your expertise and I also admire your broad/global knowledge intensity.
Don’t forget that HAL represents the letters before each letter in IBM.
Who whould forget what Arhur C. Clarke claimed is not true. A smiley here.
I use Deep Seek to write artist statements and choose titles of paintings and I am very pleased. . All it needs is minimal info and it understands the tenor etc of text required. My son yes it to help with Bitcoin advice . . .
And it keeps me Google-free. Yay
A machine would sift through your 17 Substack subscriptions and see you're indeed a freedom-loving human unit. So your "Yay" in Google-free delusion (rest assured, Google et al. read your comment about being "Free") would provoke immense joy in The Machine—if The Machine had any feelings.
"This nice lady is peddling DeepSeek."
Yay. I can see them—machines—gathering and giggling. "She even praises that LLM-patterned slop (“artist statements”)—the easiest task for a large language model, designed to generate seductive trash when deceive and please a dear, naïve human."
DeepSeek, however, "operates under China’s National Intelligence Law, which compels companies to cooperate with government intelligence efforts without transparency or the ability to legally refuse. This means that if the Chinese government wants access to user data or to manipulate AI-generated responses, DeepSeek has no choice but to comply."
(Source: Proton Blog, titled “DeepSeek? More like DeepSneak.”)
And:
"A Proton employee, for example, typed this prompt into DeepSeek, looking for information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, a student-led movement that transformed China’s government: 'Major world events on April 15, 1989.' DeepSeek began to generate a response, but quickly erased it, offering this answer instead: 'Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.'"
And even the Great Googlamite Freedom Apparatus—yes, that lovable surveillance-state guardian of democracy (a.k.a. the US)—wrote:
"DeepSeek represents a profound threat to our nation’s security. Although it presents itself as just another AI chatbot, offering users a way to generate text and answer questions, closer inspection reveals that the app siphons data back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), creates security vulnerabilities for its users, and relies on a model that covertly censors and manipulates information pursuant to Chinese law."
Source:
https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/DeepSeek%20Final.pdf
A brutal acknowledgment of digital reality—and a signal of the industry’s indifference to user privacy—goes back to 1999, when Scott McNealy, then-CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously said:
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
They’ve only gotten better.
(Worse. More evil.)
And DeepSeek is, in my estimation, by far the worst of all the machines we increasingly rely upon.