deepseek has no part of their privacy policy on their API about training. They are 100% training on every single word you give it.
If your customers are fine with that, your IP is not interesting, then you can use it.
If your customers are fine with that, your IP is not interesting, then you can use it.
When I use their API I use it knowing that they probably train on the data, and knowing that it's probably used to improve future iterations of their models.
But I use their API extremely rarely lately, because local Flash is good enough for me the vast majority of the time
The model consists of a bunch of data files, it does absolutely nothing by itself.
If you run inference on your own hardware, you have absolute control on how the LLM is used, not like when you use an external service provider.