Open source and under control: the DeepSeek paradox - 360
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DeepSeek has emerged on the front line of debates determining the future of AI, but its arrival poses questions over who decides what ‘intelligence’ we need. Chinese company DeepSeek stands at the crossroads of two major battles shaping artificial intelligence development: whether source code should be freely available and whether development should happen in free […]
  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    ChatGPT and co are also banned by many the same countries that banned DeepSeek and also most companies. Everyone either uses open source self-hosted models or they use internally produced ones. It’s literally no different from how other could-only solutions with embedded tracking are treated.

    Also stop comparing GPT-4 model with DeepSeek hosted service. Compare model to model or service to service.

    Open source models can be uncensored (which is already the case for DeepSeek R1 model), proprietary cloud-only models can’t.

    So yes, we should really ask which “transparency” we should be seeking. A whole article written to justify desired result instead manages to prove the opposite correct. Good job Suzannah.