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Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

The amount of people spamming ‘deepseek’ on YouTube comments and live streams is insane. Definitely have a shit load of shadow funding

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It's reasonable to be suspicious.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I find the online cheerleading for AI and AGI strange. It feels like a frothing mob rooting for the unleashing of a monster at times.

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, a lot of it is just people who started using chatgpt to do some simple and boring task (writing an email, CV, or summarizing an article) and started thinking that it's the best thing since sliced bread.

I would know that since I'm a university student. I know the limitations of current AI stuff so I can cautiously use it for certain tasks and don't trust the output to be correct. Meanwhile, my friend thought that he was making chatgpt better at answering his multiple choice economics quiz by telling it which of the answers it gave was wrong...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Seems to actually be some press about it too, I was surprised to see Bbc, Reuters and new york post write about it.

But yeah, it's very interesting what they have made here.