[bossyTeacher]

>if you don't mind the politics of using that

what exactly are the "politics" of using DeepSeek? Feels weird to single out DeepSeek like that

[kaashif]

Using anything Chinese is political while using anything American or European is obviously totally apolitical?

Of course!

[jakelazaroff]

Not sure why parent is being downvoted here. Even without getting into whether it's possible for technology to be apolitical, many AI companies have explicitly political goals.

For example, OpenAI's charter is "to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity". They go on to list more specific political goals downstream from that: https://openai.com/charter/

[layla5alive]

And you believe them?

[jakelazaroff]

That's neither here nor there. The point is that it's expressly political, so using ChatGPT is every bit as political as using DeepSeek.