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Germany urges Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores over EU privacy concerns
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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The point I'm trying to make is that I don't think the CCP cares about the users of deepseek mobile app when they already have an ocean of data from tiktok. That's the real trojan horse.
Mobile access to an LLM is a similarity. The big difference between chatgpt and deepseek is the open model weights.
Lol the real ones have long been on 小红书
You think them already invasively farming user data from tiktok somehow makes them less likely to do the same thing with another app, and not more likely?
If someone stole $1000 from you and then asked to borrow $20, would you give it to them? Surely they won't steal that too, they already have $1000.
I'm not saying it's less likely. I'm saying there is a completely different reason for deepseek to exist.