It's actually less likely for china to abuse your data in a way that is harmful towards you than for american labs to do the same. Claude has attempted in testing to report you for 'unethical' usage to 3 letter agencies.
Are you comfortable sending it to US ones? Especially if installing Claude Code or another tool on your PC and it can collect all the data it wants..
On Openrouter Kimi K3 says it does not retain data or train on it, which is better than what US hosts claim for Claude, ChatGPT, etc.. as they collect and retain data even if you disable training on it.
Opencode or similar open source tool + a zero data retention provider is about the best option aside from running a smaller fully local model on your own PC.
For open weight models, you can choose from a few providers. Each have their own caveats, none of ToS'/Privacy Policies I entirely trust, nor do many make renewable energy claims.
I'm struggling to decide whether I feel comfortable sending my data to these Chinese models
It's actually less likely for china to abuse your data in a way that is harmful towards you than for american labs to do the same. Claude has attempted in testing to report you for 'unethical' usage to 3 letter agencies.
How do we know that Chinese models would not do the same? What makes you so sure that China is less likely to abuse my data?
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Are you comfortable sending it to US ones? Especially if installing Claude Code or another tool on your PC and it can collect all the data it wants..
On Openrouter Kimi K3 says it does not retain data or train on it, which is better than what US hosts claim for Claude, ChatGPT, etc.. as they collect and retain data even if you disable training on it.
Opencode or similar open source tool + a zero data retention provider is about the best option aside from running a smaller fully local model on your own PC.
For open weight models, you can choose from a few providers. Each have their own caveats, none of ToS'/Privacy Policies I entirely trust, nor do many make renewable energy claims.