What if I told you.. this was no different to every US company

You are the product whenever you are sending your data to an LLM not controlled by you.

Nothing specific to Deepseek.

There is not a single LLM provider I trust enough to send secrets to. If you firewall accordingly the provider (or local) can be interchangable, barring capability differences of course.

I also struggle to find a provider that can credibly convince me I wouldn't be a product for when using. Have you found one?

Generous of you to think I'm doing top secret coding and not just another cat website