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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Deepseek api is down today - probably a result of their viral success recently..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I heard they are under ddos attack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Of course it's faster & cheaper when it's being censored & can't access half of human history because the fucking ccp finds it offensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As opposed to reddit censoring Israel genociding Palestine and Luigi ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Reddit is total trash too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The model itself is probably not censored. The censorship comes on top. Preliminary tests already show how this can be circumvented.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If censorship would make it cheaper then surely it wouldn't be that much cheaper than OpenAI. Different things are being censored and blocked but surely, your suggestion is a bit silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your comment is a bit silly. The CCP engages in currency manipulation amongst other nefarious actions to prop up its interests. It was likely created from stolen data & heavily propped up by the government, just like various other projects that were supposedly Chinese "innovations" but looks remarkably like their western competitors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The CCP engages in currency manipulation amongst other nefarious actions to prop up its interests.

Yeah? So does the US. Didn't make OpenAI cheaper, did it?

It was likely created from stolen data

Just like ChatGPT was created with stolen content.

heavily propped up by the government

Still only 6 million. Keep coping tho lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's "though" learn to spell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Heh, that's a cool argument you made but sadly you also made a MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Though argument you got there lmao

[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 week ago (2 children)

most of that 'hundreds of billions' isn't going to go towards the tech or infrastructure, it's gonna go to people. a very small number of specific individuals.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (10 children)

correct, US taxpayer is being fleeced so some parasites can live their best lives.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It is beautiful how the US is never short on cash for state aid to enrich some owners.

But god forbid plebs ask for a good train, that's communism!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Socialism for giant corporations: 😎🦅🇺🇸

Socialism for common people: 😡🚫🤷‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Anyone who thinks this was about getting AI working was the idiot from the start, there still isn’t even a real use-case for it. This was always about funneling huge amounts of money from the government budget to a bunch of rich assholes. The outcome doesn’t matter at all here.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Venture capitalists using the US gov as their new marketing platform is a joke in it self.

What's next? Is the next White House briefing gonna be in a stadium, with laser show, motivational music and some ponce going on stage to hype people up?

Griftonomics has reached the upper levels, y'all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

there still isn’t even a real use-case for it

There are several real use cases for it, it's just that they're worth like ten bucks a month to me all together and OpenAI is running at a loss while charging... *checks notes* 200 dollars per month for their top tier model?

[–] labbbb2 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why is there no real use-case for it? But what about disinformation?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

And making starving artists’ lives even more unlivable. And taking human creativity and joy from humans.

While destroying the environment. It’s so efficient.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Guys listen up, every deepseek model comes with a dedicated chinese spy, who will log all your data and send it back to CCP who will use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization.

Instead we should use Freedom© models from OpenAI (side note if deepseek is so "open" how come they don't have open in their name huh?) even if OpenAI don't show their reasoning, they only do this cuz they want to protect us and they stand for our values.

They cost 100x more only because they are fighting for our Freedom and Freedom doesn't come cheap, Freedom doesn't have a price, Freedom requires our sacrifice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

every deepseek model comes with a dedicated chinese spy, who will log all your data and send it back to CCP who will use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization

there's no need, western civilization is collapsing by itself

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The US is getting owned by China left and right, but sure lets focus on abusing minorities, women, LGBTQ+, and the poor instead of investing on actually making America great. Whatever.

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