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DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it | Kenan Malik
While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology
It is neither faster nor “cleverer” than OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude and just as prone to “ hallucinations ” – the tendency, exhibited by all LLMs, to give false answers or to make up “facts” to fill gaps in its data. Silicon Valley has nurtured the image of AI technology as a precious and miraculous accomplishment, and portrayed its leading figures, from Elon Musk to Sam Altman, as prophets guiding us into a new world. It is also an approach that seeks to advance AI less through major scientific breakthroughs than through a brute force strategy of “scaling up” – building bigger models, using larger datasets, and deploying vastly greater computational power.
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