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DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] self@awful.systems 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what if none of it’s good, all of it’s fraud (especially the benchmarks), and having a favorite grifter in this fuckhead industry is just too precious

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

well, it’s free to download and run locally so i struggle to see what the grift is

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

fuck off promptfan

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Customer acquisition cost for a future service, which is ~fixed after training costs, assuming we can consider distribution costs as marginal. Reasonably impressive accomplishment, if one is taking the perspective of SV SaaS-financing brain.*

*I don't recommend you do this for too long, that's how some of the people currently prominent in the news got to be the way that they are