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I’m not sure how much sense it makes to complain that an AI chat bot collects so many categories of data and then highlight “user input”, which it obviously needs to function? Like how is something like DeepSeek the “middle ground” if that’s what the author thinks is the biggest problem with it? When I look at DeepSeek on the app store, it does list at least “coarse location”, so why not highlight that? DeepSeek can’t answer my questions about e.g. “restaurants nearby”, unlike e.g. ChatGPT, which comes up with a map. So that’s what I would be interested in, what DeepSeek uses my location for.

Although just in principle this kind of analysis rarely finds surprises.

If you can enter text or click on things in an online app, obviously it collects user input.

If it can refer back to previous answers, obviously it retains chat history.

If it can process pictures, obviously it collects photos if you upload any.

If it can be interacted with using voice, obviously it collects audio.

If it can answer questions about things near you, obviously it will use location data.

If there are IAPs, it better not forget that you bought those, too.

And so on.

Samsung had a smart watch with a curved screen and a 3g modem in 2014 (the original Gear S). I guess it didn’t work out.