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• How you can make DeepSeek tell the truth

  Posted on February 24, 2025 at 02:44 CST by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  The tech world was shocked last month when a Chinese company released DeepSeek, a chatbot that uses affordable, run-of-the-mill chips and consumes less energy per query than other artificial-intelligence programs.

  What’s not so good about DeepSeek is the way it censors or outright lies about political affairs. This includes anything you ask the chatbot that relates to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Asian democracy, and numerous other subjects.

  But it’s easy to make DeepSeek give you the straight-up truth — and I’ll tell you how to do it.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.08.0, 2025-02-24).

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• What do we know about DeepSeek?

  Posted on February 17, 2025 at 02:44 CST by Michael Covington • Comment in the Forums

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  By Michael A. Covington

  On January 27, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek caused so much panic in American industry that NVIDIA stock dropped 17% in one day, and the whole Nasdaq had a 3.4% momentary dip.

  What scared everybody? The impressive performance of the DeepSeek large language model (LLM), which competes with ChatGPT, reportedly cost less than a tenth as much to create and costs less than a tenth as much to run.

  The bottom fell out of the market for powerful GPUs, at least temporarily, because they don’t seem to be needed in anywhere near the quantities expected.

  But what is this DeepSeek, and what do we make of it?

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.07.0, 2025-02-17).

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