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by ur-whale 483 days ago
The incentive behind the work of DeepSeek might very well be wrong (something along the lines of a state-sponsored attempt at shrinking the US first mover advantage in AI to nil) but the net result for everyone on the planet is simply fantastic.

So even in the worst case (doing this for the wrong reasons): thank you DeepSeek, you are actually doing what OpenAI lied through their teeth to the whole world about doing for years.

You rock.

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> The incentive behind the work of DeepSeek might very well be wrong (something along the lines of a state-sponsored attempt at shrinking the US first mover advantage in AI to nil)

In the space of international relations, right and wrong don't apply nearly as much. Is open sourcing this any more "wrong" than the export ban on high end Nvidia GPUs?

The open sourcing by DeepSeek (presumably with CCP consent) just happens to be good for both the CCP and the broader open source AI community at the same time, but don't take it as some kind of principled stance by them.

Finding ways to take away other countries' competitive advantages is a major activity off all governments, large and small.

It seems CCP is less hate worthy than they were two months ago. Comparing fake democracy with real authoritarian is kinda funny.