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by miroljub 1 hour ago
As a European, I trust Chinese AI providers more than American. Cloud act did it for me.
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I trust them as a cloud less than US but don't completely trust US.
Canadian, and I also agree. It’s hard to avoid but I try not to use any American service or data storage.
And that's fine of course, but it's worth noting that you're making a decision driven by emotion rather than data.
Both China and the US can compel businesses to hand over data. There is no reason to trust any service that doesn't have strong built in privacy.
It’s not China that is threatening to annex Greenland though.
Yes, but China can't arrest me if they don't like what they see in my data.

USA and its vassals can.

Same
As an American, I trust Chinese AI providers more than American.
The chinese providers are just the CCP. They don't even need a cloud act...
I think too many people are conflating Chinese providers with Chinese models - you can easily have Chinese models safely (well, relatively safely, I guess) hosted on US or EU infrastructure.
Case in point, Microsoft just announced it is toying with the idea of using DeepSeek as a cheaper model tier in CoPilot. They are hosting the model themselves.
Interested in the reply to this.