Posted on 01/27/2025 7:18:41 AM PST by Red Badger
Chinese startup DeepSeek was on Monday hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States.
The company resolved issues relating to its application programming interface and users' inability to log in to the website, according to its status page. The outages on Monday were the company's longest in around 90 days and coincides with its sky-rocketing popularity.
Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators say "tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally", the artificial intelligence application has surged in popularity among U.S. users since it was released on Jan. 10, according to app data research firm Sensor Tower.
The milestone highlights how DeepSeek has left a deep impression on Silicon Valley, upending widely held views about U.S. primacy in AI and the effectiveness of Washington's export controls targeting China's advanced chip and AI capabilities.
AI models from ChatGPT to DeepSeek require advanced chips to power their training. The Biden administration has since 2021 widened the scope of bans designed to stop these chips from being exported to China and used to train Chinese firms' AI models.
However, DeepSeek researchers wrote in a paper last month that the DeepSeek-V3 used Nvidia's H800 chips for training, spending less than $6 million.
Although this detail has since been disputed, the claim that the chips used were less powerful than the most advanced Nvidia products Washington has sought to keep out of China, as well as the relatively cheap training costs, has prompted U.S. tech executives to question the effectiveness of tech export controls.
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Yep...................
FREE comes with a price, that price most likely is a spy tool.
https://www.deepseekv3.net/en/chat
Says:
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Is there any way that you can think of to fake AI?
An old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
Delete "most likely." It is a spy tool.
Consider how many online apps and updates and all the rest are accompanied by sales pitches and how many websites -- even ostensible conservative sites -- begin their pitches with "input name and email" and the like.
The CCP is no fool. They watch and learn. And they are offering FREE, just as do so many social media sites, busy with their own "collections."
We should remember "we" are the data as well as the access they want.
Amazing that this comes out the first week of Trump’s presidency.
Too amazing. I call BS.
Same tactic as the Covid hoax.
They could suck off all of a user’s data to build their Collections - here it is very important to recall that ALL companies in China are beholden to the CCP and ALL companies are entangled with the PLA.
This is a program instituted by Xi Jinping called Civilian-Military Fusion - what each has, is given to the other.
So your data goes directly to the PLA for their fun and enjoyment to include your passwords, bank accounts, credit cards, email lists and names etc.
Enjoy your cutting edge AI experience!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
Why the hell do people flock to Chinese spyware crap, like flies to crap!? Absolute morons.
Let's face it: China isn't eating our lunch on AI but it's certainly pacing us neck and neck and they may be leading in some ways.
Until such time as the average Joe learns "free" isn't free, the "morons" ( as a following comment call them ) will give access as they will.
Have you a geopolitical solution? We've adopted a most personal solution.
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“DeepSeek”?
The Chinese either need to work on their branding or they just don’t care to hide it anymore - because they know we will download anything.
My point in sharing that experience is that the DeepSeek platform is much like my desktop version of the enterprise. It works well, but is already demonstrating problems of scalability and processing volume. It costs real money to build powerful infrastructure that can stand up to heavy processing loads.
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Maybe because it sounds like ‘Deep Six’..............
How would they get that information without hacking your computer?
How would they get that information without hacking your computer?
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when you sign up, you have to agree to certain permissions ( aka, Terms of Service ) - which allow them to harvest.
They can’t access any data on your computer unless you explicitly allow them access to it. The only data they might harvest is what you choose to share directly on their AI platform. That’s it!
so tiktok was a non issue as the chinese have red note and this deepseek as backup.
why dumb teens flocks to those sites?
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