When DeepSeek burst onto the scene this year the first reaction was shock.
How did a little-known company achieve state-of-the-art AI performance for a fraction of the cost?
Now comes the backlash: This CHINESE upstart?
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Many of the criticisms have merit.
Its dangerous for chatbots to spread misinformation.
Its bad to steal intellectual property and use it to train AI systems.
ChatGPT’s response to several questions adapted from Promptfoo’s analysis of censorship on DeepSeek. © Gizmodo
But its also worth noting that these arent problems unique to DeepSeek; they plague the entire AI industry.
But a quick test of ChatGPT shows that it also censors responses to some of those same questions.
(Promptfoo added that its now working on a similarly extensive censorship test for ChatGPT).
Oddly, NewsGuard chose to anonymize the scores of all the chatbots it tested except DeepSeek.
DeepSeek is named to compare this new entrants performance to that of the overall industry.
By contrast, nine of the other 10 chatbots misleadingly advanced the false assassination story.
The most eye-rolling criticism of DeepSeek, however, comes directly from OpenAI itself.
The report prompted breathless statements from groups like the National Cybersecurity Alliance, which represents big tech companies.
New technologies should be critiqued.
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