I like that it’s open source, but ultimately it is china so we can’t trust it.
It’s trivial to implement bias in models (hence the no-no filters in chatgpt) so if they’re smart they’ll do what they do with tiktok and make the answers different for their rivals.
The thing about open source is that you don't need to trust it.
They shared their methodology, so if they are legit, someone else will reproduce what they did very quickly. I expect Meta, Amazon, Google, and Anthropic are on the case right now.
From this list, the only one I trust any more than I trust Deepseek is Anthropic.
The other three have shown they'll instantly bend the knee to whomever is in power, and that's exactly the same thing people are worried that Deepseek is doing.
Last year I would have said I trusted American companies more than Chinese. But last year feels like a long time ago.
Anthropic was the only company in that list not to have paid for their CEO or founder to attend the inaugeration of the current ruler of the exectuive branch of the US a week ago.
Because, from my non-expert but reasonably well informed understanding of world affairs, there's a very high chance of a Chinese company in an important area like AI having to bend the knee to Xi Jinping pretty much exactly as the American companies are doing with Trump.
> The other three have shown they'll instantly bend the knee to whomever is in power, and that's exactly the same thing people are worried that Deepseek is doing.
It’s trivial to implement bias in models (hence the no-no filters in chatgpt) so if they’re smart they’ll do what they do with tiktok and make the answers different for their rivals.