DeepSeek is really crazy cheap, though, and they don't have a giant pool of other invasive personal data to correlate it with.

I hate to say this and this is because I fucking despise meta. But between DeepSeek and Meta, and trust they handle the training data correctly, I trust meta.

What do you mean by "correctly"?

For example, OpenCode says they have a ZDR with DeepSeek. Some of us are skeptical that's going to be properly honored. There's no way to know.