[danans]

Nobody expects otherwise from a model served under the laws of the authoritarian and anti-democratic CCP. Just ask those questions to a different model (or, you know pick up a history book).

The novelty of DeepSeek is that an open source model is functionally competitive with expensive closed models at a dramatically lower cost, which appears to knock the wind out of the the sails of some major recent corporate and political announcements about how much compute/energy is required for very functional AI.

These blog posts sound very much like an attempt to distract from that.

[zb3]

Obviously. What else could Chinese engineers do? The most they can do is to convince the company/party to make the model open source and it seems they've done that.