It's open source. Unlike Claude Code your beloved friend which is closed-source and uses steganography along with an astonishing array of telemetry and fingerprinting techniques to conduct intelligence analysis on its users.

As a non-American, I see handing my data to an American company as potentially just as risky as handing it to a Chinese company.

It's open source. Unlike Claude Code

Well under the current US administration as non-US citizens we kinda feel this sentiment about the US now fwiw.

Ahh! Not China! Real Americans™ let their data go to American™ companies!

What if I use it in an isolated environment and only work on open source code with it?

> Your data goes to china.

What are they going to do? They have no jurisdiction over me.

I strongly prefer China having access to my personal data than the US.

better this than three-letter agencies from some nazi warmongering alternative

The new danger is US administration and the current fascit regime. China has yet not topple a single government abroad, has not bombed a single country and has not tapped the phones of its allies.

Now don't down vote before understanding the definition of a fasict:

"A fascist is a person who advocates for or adheres to fascism, a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology."

China is none of that.

Is there a safer alternative? It’s not like I can trust OpenAI since they’ve proven that they’ll steal research from mathematicians. X is run by a sociopath. Anthropic is going to IPO so who can say how long they’ll be trustworthy…