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The amount of people spamming ‘deepseek’ on YouTube comments and live streams is insane. Definitely have a shit load of shadow funding
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.
Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots
Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources
Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.
It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.
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.
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...
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.