China’s DeepSeek Bombshell Rocks Trump’s $500BN AI Boondoggle"Most people probably don’t realize how bad the news (about) China’s Deepseek is for OpenAI. They’ve come up with a model that matches and even exceeds OpenAI’s latest model o1 on various benchmarks, and they’re charging just 3% of the price. It’s essentially as if someone had released a mobile on par with the iPhone but was selling it for $30 instead of $1000. It’s this dramatic.""What’s more, they’re releasing it open-source so you even have the option – which OpenAI doesn’t offer – of not using their API at all and running the model for “free” yourself." FULL STORY at above link.
DeepSeek: Distorting reality while invading your privacy | Blaze Media
“The way the model is built, you have one kind of AI agent that gets your answer, starts giving you the basic answer, and then it asks the experts behind the scenes, the expert part of the model, in that particular field, to give it clarification, and when it does, that expert part of the model, which is basically the Chinese Communist Party, says ‘You can’t talk about that,’” he adds."
"But that’s not even the worst of it. DeepSeek reportedly collects your IP, your keystroke patterns, and your device information and stores it in China, where the data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the Chinese state."
“If you don’t think this is true, you can read it right in their terms of service,” Stu says. And he’s right. In the terms of service, it states, The personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China.” FULL STORY at above link.