So DeepSeek has this very cool feature that displays what it is “thinking” before it gives you its answer. It’s quite neat in that you can see its “thought” process, but it also has the added benefit of revealing whatever bias it might have developed with its training data.
In this case, I asked it if we might be living in a “slow motion World War 3” with the Maiden Coup in Ukraine being the opening shots. The mf thought that I might “buy Russian propaganda” because I called it a coup rather than a revolution.
So although DeepSeek is Chinese, it was still very clearly trained on a lot of mainstream / 
information.
They’re both trained on reddit
I dont think its an illusion of choice so much as it not being the choice you think. Using a different LLM isnt gonna get you that much different of an answer, but it does change which company gets your info from the query. So i think its a good idea if your in the US to use Local, or Chinese LLMs as much as possible. Otherwise your telling US companies a lot about yourself.