My work has already blocked it, but has no problems using AI hosted by a country whose leader is a convicted criminal with close ties to Russia and North Korea
You know, if the mainstream news spent this amount of oxygen explaining that it can be downloaded in various sizes and run securely, the whole world would be in a much better situation.
I am not saying that China don’t do some of the things they are accused of, but the amount of anti-China fear in Western nations is only hurting ourselves.
Just download the model. Problem solved
What they’re actually in panic over is companies using a Chinese service instead of US ones. The threat here is that DeepSeek becomes the standard that everyone uses, and it would become entrenched. At that point nobody would want to switch to US services.
https://securityconversations.com/episode/inside-the-deepseek-ai-existential-crisis-chinese-backdoor-in-medical-devices/ If you ignore the kind of laent anti China crap, this is a pretty good analysis from a technical perspective. When someone does something faster and cheaper we used to call that progress. Not if China does it I guess, and not if it’s open source even if Meta did the same thing with llama.
Exactly, and these kinds of policies will only ensure that the west starts falling behind technologically. Stifling innovation to prop up monopolies will not be a winning strategy in the long run.
I keep seeing this sentiment, but in order to run the model on a high end consumer GPU, doesn’t it have to be reduced to like 1-2% of the size of the official one?
Edit: I just did a tiny bit of reading and I guess model size is a lot more complicated than I thought. I don’t have a good sense of how much it’s being reduced in quality to run locally.
YouTube-connected the right track still. All these people touting it as an open model likely haven’t even tried to run if locally themselves. The hosted version is not the same as what is easily runnable local.
Just think of it this way. Less digital neurons in smaller models means a smaller “brain”. It will be less accurate, more vague, and make more mistakes.
just the fact that they wont have an iron grip monopoly over the rest of the world is fine by me
It’s open source and researchers are already duplicating the process, so I’m not sure if that will ever happen.
They’re gonna ban access to the official service provided by a Chinese company. That’s what this is about. The biggest fear is that everybody starts using DeepSeek, and then it will muscle out US companies that fell behind. Once people start using their service, they’ll have little reason to switch to something else going forward. Banning it is a protectionist measure that allows US companies to catch up.
This service can be straight-up forked like a Fediverse instance. Banning the service will not hurt competition.
The key for them is that they want the service to be provided by a US company. There are actually already a few companies hosting DeepSeek in US, and I’m sure the techniques will be incorporated by everyone in short order.
And DeepSeek can continue to release open source models. Banning just the service happens to lower the cahnces of DeepSeek going the same way OpenAI did, as in it would be more unlikely for them to close off the models like OpenAI did if they want to continue shaking up the market.
As I explained above the open source models aren’t the problem from the US perspective. DeepSeek will obviously continue to release models, and it will likely become the standard outside the west. However, US will not allow it become the dominant service provider in the US, and that’s why I expect the service to be banned. The US will force American companies to use a domestic provider, and Europe is likely to do the same.
You cannot have good fast and free. Pick two.
That’s generally true under the paradigm of profit maximization unless you reach some sort of insane tech breakthrough, which deepseek seems to have accomplished
There’s always a catch. Subsidized by the government for now? What’s the end game? Free AI for all? No one is that kind.
have you tried deepseek before the DDoS attacks
Is that what they’re calling “requests” now? ;)
Nothing is magically the most amazing thing ever, for free. There is always a catch.
What’s the catch here? What’s stopping you from self-hosting, aside from technical requirements?
Model is trained to manipulate reality?
I mostly mean the online version. Nothing is free online. Although AI is a weird new space where using it makes it better, so even though you are the product, you’re a necessity.
