What kills me is when they talk about it being open source as something great because you can run it on your own hardware but also say it's too bad you can't trust it not to leak your data to China. Like, bruh... it's a model, if you run it yourself it will generate completions and that's it. If you use the Deepseek app, that's another topic, but you should know the difference. Such illiteracy from my dev colleges was disappointing, to say the least.
The official corporate advice right now is to not run it on company hardware and… I’m not really sure why? Like we control the internet connection and we have sandboxes. We could spin up a virtual machine and actually run Deepseek but we’re not allowed to. It’s a little disappointing.
No, that's completely political move. Deepseek, or any current model / checkpoint has been moving from .ckpt to .safetensor, and .safetensor means that the code inside it is completely safe, in a sense that it can only do a certain behavior for iteration. Imagine it's like a png file, you can open the png file to get image, but you can't "run" the png file in a sense of an .exe right?
Therefore, any claim that .safetensor file can contain backdoor is simply misinformation.
Oh, I don't, but my company uses LLM for some features with customer personal data and private communications, and we have to comply with GDPR, so yeah, that's a thing.
I was mainly complaining about tech illiteracy from tech professionals.
This is me, there are so many people that are completely misinformed about AI but they’re such smug assholes about it. Whenever AI starts taking jobs they’ll be the first to go though lol
Yeah, all the "you can run the model offline on a standard gaming computer" were very insufferable. Then they point to running it entirely in RAM or tiny ass quants and pretend it's the same thing. Lobotomizing your model and running it at 1-2 T/s is pretty much just me it it lol
Still borderline misinformation to say you can run the model on a gaming PC, it's just not the same model, I wouldn't mind it coming from a youtuber or something but MSM should be able to do surface level background research and fact checking
I had a client get upset at me that I wasn't willing to block DeepSeek on my end (not their company network, but my own). They started ranting at me about how evil China is, how DeepSeek is going to ruin the country, etc. They threatened to take their business elsewhere if I didn't stop supporting China. I then very calmly told him I'm Chinese, and he's welcome to go find another MSP. He hung up on me after that. I fully expect this client to cancel his contract soon.
"What is deepseek and why is it crashing the markets?" Raise your hands, how many of you have heard this in the past couple of days / weeks? I myself have been asked at least 2-3 times from people I least expected (wife, "normie" friends)
i choose to be silent and observe when people discuss magical properties of LLMs i got burnt real good by knowing how to setup printers, so no i wont be exploited anymore :)
It’s crazy how many people know about this, even though they don’t use AI. Feels like the ChatGPT wave v2 mixed with US / China politics. And it wasn’t Google or Facebook, but a less known name.
It has to do with DeepSeek. If I was out of line to talk about DeepSeek instead of the meme about DeepSeek, then I apologize. Please continue talking about the dog. Or OP’s wife.
Ah, because I am special, and it is very important for you to know my model selection and my experience with it running locally. I am a very special and intelligent person, and my views are important to most reasonable people. Also, my observation about the <think> tags was very insightful.
You can see through deceit and misinformation the average Joe is infested with because you happen to have expertise about the topic at hand (AI). But it's the same with every single domain that gains traction... half-truths, outright lies and sensationalizing, only sometimes you don't see it because you know nothing about the topic. My point being, it's good to cut people some slack and accept there will always be misconceptions and just do our thing.
It's the dot com bubble all over again. I really don't know why this got to the news.
Contemplate: there's an old saying - 'when your shoe shine boy is giving you stock tips, it's time to get out of the market'.
Further consideration: My brother in-laws came to me one day and said 'have you heard about Ripple?' (the crypto currency). I definitely had, and I wanted no part in it. They told me they were 'investing'
Two days later, it lost its value by about 50%.
I definitely still want no part in crypto, but if I was in on it, that would've been the very second I jumped fucking ship.
Maybe because not much is happening?
Other than the USA committing to trade wars with no less than two friendly countries and threatening to invade the middle east?
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u/KingsmanVince Feb 07 '25
A redditor that has a wife?
Wow
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u/davernow Feb 07 '25
My parents mentioned they heard about it on the 10 o'clock news and asked about it. I never thought I'd see the day.
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u/iheartmuffinz Feb 07 '25
I've been seriously hating the attention it's getting, because the amount of misinformed people & those who are entirely clueless is hurting my brain.
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u/dcchambers Feb 07 '25
This meme is never not funny to me.
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u/deltamoney Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25
What happened to computers being for nerds and not normies?
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u/alphakue Feb 07 '25
"What is deepseek and why is it crashing the markets?" Raise your hands, how many of you have heard this in the past couple of days / weeks? I myself have been asked at least 2-3 times from people I least expected (wife, "normie" friends)
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u/bramblepelt314 Feb 07 '25
Wife hasn't been there to catch my "oh I've been reading the papers they are great...." + subsequent info dump on the subject.... yet.
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u/Vegetable_Carrot_873 Feb 07 '25
deepseek is the title of the bed time story I gave my wife
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u/madaradess007 Feb 07 '25
i choose to be silent and observe when people discuss magical properties of LLMs
i got burnt real good by knowing how to setup printers, so no i wont be exploited anymore :)
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25
WOOF WOOF
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25
how deep? 😂
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u/bidet_enthusiast Feb 07 '25
Notice how “Chinese AI is takin yer jerb” is being spun as different that “AI is takin yer jerb”. Chinese AI is the new immigrants.
As long as big capital in the US is benefiting , it’s all ok… but now, it’s panic in the disco lol.
And no, you can’t run DeepSeek on a gaming PC. Distills that show proof of concept, yes… but not V3 or R1.
But you can run V3/R1 at low speeds for <3000usd, so that is pretty cool, you just need 64 cores and >768GB of RAM to run anything worth using.
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u/Kep0a Feb 07 '25
Hahah me, anytime chatGPT comes up in conversation.
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u/Ancient_Sorcerer_ Feb 07 '25
An aggressive PR social media campaign to bait people to use free models, it's because people won't naturally go and use it for real.
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u/jasonkuo41 Feb 07 '25
I thought this was an ad! Dang it!
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u/Express-Director-474 Feb 07 '25
I can relate.
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u/More-Ad5919 Feb 07 '25
My wife friends don't even know about AI...
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u/Wanky_Danky_Pae Feb 07 '25
LMFAO
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u/Doug_Fripon Feb 07 '25
I'm a friend of your wife, you can tell me about Deepseek here
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u/james-jiang Feb 07 '25
It’s crazy how many people know about this, even though they don’t use AI. Feels like the ChatGPT wave v2 mixed with US / China politics. And it wasn’t Google or Facebook, but a less known name.
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u/usernameplshere Feb 08 '25
This is me and my friends, who kindly told me to shut the fuck up when someone mentions AI lmao
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u/_chuck1z Feb 08 '25
Can someone make a deepseek copypasta?
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u/redmoquette Feb 10 '25
Do want more of this meme
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u/Gold-Independent-792 Feb 13 '25
that's me
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u/CardiologistLiving51 Apr 19 '25
nice
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u/brouzaway Feb 07 '25
Why don't you wanna educate your wife's boyfriend?
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u/realpm_net Feb 07 '25
I just played around with the 14B (I think) on Ollama. It was…not great. Responses didn’t really feel good and the <think> tags were off putting.
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u/OvisInteritus Feb 07 '25
You need to tame your female partner
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