> but with open router you can create a no China provider selector
why on earth would you trust no data is sent to China? just because you clicked a toggle?
> but with open router you can create a no China provider selector
why on earth would you trust no data is sent to China? just because you clicked a toggle?
Openrouter is very transparent about where your requests are going. Every single one is logged.
You decide the routing if you want.
I trust it because there are at least 7 billion on the line. If it came out that they were violating their contract and sending company secrets to China when they promised they won’t, they would lose literal billions for basically no gain, and possible criminal charges.
Why on earth would you think they are sending data to China after you click that toggle when they have every reason not to?
As a QA engineer with over 30 years of identifying software regressions, I would assume that data would eventually get sent to China even if you click that toggle. One ambitious intern or new hire is all it takes, especially in an age of agent-generated code and 1K+ line PRs.
With that logic you shouldnt even deploy to the cloud at all. Someone in AWS can also accidentally share an S3 bucket with backups to the whole internet, there are plenty of precedents for that
By that logic, how can you trust OpenAI and Anthropic not to do the same?
For one, openai and anthropic are the top two AI labs and therefore have some reputation at stake. Openrouter is like aliexpress. Any fly-by night vendor can get listed on there.
The Chinese providers also have reputations at stake
Not all reputations are equal.
Good point, the American labs have an awful reputation, and public sentiment is so low it might as well be negative. Plus they've already broken our trust by scraping and stealing everyone's intellectual property to begin with, so they have a lot of catching up to do in terms of reputation and trust.
>Good point, the American labs have an awful reputation ...
Reddit/bluesky users seething at anthropic/openai doesn't matter, because they're not the one making the purchasing decisions for AI. Moreover all the complaints you mentioned applies to chinese AI labs as well, with the extra issue that they're beholden to the CCP. Taking the side of chinese ai labs because they're the competitors of american labs is "enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic, which is just dumb. It's like those people who think the US is bad, so then go and simp for china/russia.
Do you really trust the notorious liar Sam Altman?