Thanks, you bring up some great points! The digital world really is a "choose your level of evil" game at this point. Musk may not be CCP, but between X, Starlink, and his ever-growing empire, he’s definitely got his hands on a fair amount of our digital lives—just not (yet?) in the way that DeepSeek might.

Speaking of DeepSeek, the latest reporting suggests they may have siphoned data from OpenAI, and Microsoft is now investigating. Some testers have already found evidence to support this, though I haven’t run enough side-by-side tests myself. But hey, in this AI arms race, the rules of love and war definitely apply—except instead of romance, we get corporate espionage and shady data practices.

And yes, everything has a bias. Whether it's shortwave radio back in the day or today's AI chatbots, we’re always decoding someone’s version of reality. Garbage in, garbage out, as you say. Maybe the real lesson is to stay skeptical, stay informed, and never trust a billionaire to have your best interests at heart.

Curious—how’s your DeepSeek experiment going? Any wild results?