I love both the content of this post and the fact that it’s a self-contained torture test for our pict-rs upgrade
also, lol @ musk, war genius, starting a domestic dispute with his ex-girlfriend cause she dared to betray him in his baby mobile 4x game when betrayals are a core part of every 4x I know
I’m getting the strong mental image of musk being the guy who flips the board 12 hours into Twilight Imperium cause the other players didn’t let him win
this bares repeating. I’ve seen quite a few people declare that DeepSeek fixes all of the issues with LLMs as a technology, but that just isn’t true. a DeepSeek LLM is still an unreliable plagiarism machine with no known use case trained on massive amounts of stolen data, even if OpenAI and other American ghouls were the ones who did the theft in the first place.
there’s a small victory in that Altman and friends were exposed very publicly as lying grifters, and that’s worth celebrating. but it’s very important to not get swept up in a hype wave, especially one crafted by people who are much more competent at managing public opinion than Altman & co. from what I understand: no, this thing isn’t meaningfully open source. ~~no, you can’t run the good version at home.~~ sure, it performs great at the benchmarks we know were designed to be cheated. yeah, DeepSeek LLMs are probably still an environmental disaster for the same reason most supposedly more efficient blockchains are — perverse financial incentives across the entire industry.
but hey, good news for the boy genius Prompt Engineer at your company: he gets to requisition another top end gaming PC, absolutely drowning in RGB, to run ~~the shit version of~~ DeepSeek on. maybe in a couple months he can spin switching from OpenAI’s rentseeking to a DeepSeek LLM startup’s slightly cheaper rentseeking into a mild pay bump.
e: see david’s reply, I’m wrong about not being able to run the full version at home — but you need $6000 of fairly specific hardware and it’s molasses slow