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by ziddoap 504 days ago
>I don't believe it was a cyber attack; I think it's just usage overload.

Can you explain what information you're basing this on? Is there a particular reason not to believe them?

Typically, from a public relations standpoint, you'd be better off saying "we're super popular and haven't scaled enough yet" over "we got hacked".

But I don't really know much about DeepSeek. Do they have a pattern of lying?
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touristtam 504 days ago
Let's put it that way; It's been days since its been in the public eyes and everyone is talking about it like it is the new ChatGPT. When your non techies friends and family members are coming to you with question about it, you know the reach is wide already. All those people have been primed by months of using ChatGPT or similar /ai/.

So it does come as a plausible explanation.

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ziddoap 504 days ago
Why is it more plausible than the explanation provided by the company? That's what I'm asking. Especially when you consider the PR downsides of saying your company has been hacked.

Maybe there's a history of the company lying, or some other evidence that it's not an attack that I haven't seen, etc.

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alecco 503 days ago
Not OP, but it's been topping app downloads everywhere. A lot of non-tech people are trying it.

Note they offer a free reasoning model while OpenAI charges $200. And the reasoning is a lot more transparent.

My opinion is probably both an attack and an unmanageable surge right on Spring Festival (Chinese NY).

It's been red all day:

https://status.deepseek.com/

But I had no issues today with web. Yesterday night it was spotty.

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