Scope change
DeepSeek changed what its privacy policy says
DeepSeek now says it may use “publicly available information via the Internet sources” “to train our models,” while still training on interactions/usage.
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Review, improve, and develop the Service, including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and by training and improving our technology.
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Public Information.** We may obtain publicly available information via the Internet sources in order to train our models and provide services.
To improve and develop the Services and to train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms. Including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and training and improving our technology.
Other DeepSeek changes
- DeepSeek now states that "certain entities within our corporate group" process your provided, automatically collected and third-party data for "foundation model training and optimization"; the opt-out remains. Change of position · DeepSeek, Privacy Policy
- DeepSeek still may train on Personal Data, but now grants “the right to opt-out of using your Personal Data for training our models or optimizing our technologies.” Change of position · DeepSeek, Privacy Policy