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DeepSeek - the free, open source “ChatGPT killer”

AstonJ

AstonJ

DeepSeek - the free, open source “ChatGPT killer”

Loads of news stories about DeepSeek here in the last few days, no surprise as it’s been making headlines across the world! Currently a huge story on social media too.

Anyone tried it? What do you think?

Here’s a good explanation:

And here are some everyday people talking about it on social media:

Along with a few more controversial ones:

Curious to hear what you all think :smiley:

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adamaiken89

adamaiken89

It represents a groundbreaking advancement in the field of LLMs However, privacy and security on Deepseek remain a hidden concern.

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jmagnani

jmagnani

I tried to use it in place of a different LLM we were using, but using the same prompt. And it seems to give a different output. Not sure if it needs to prompted differently?

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iPaul

iPaul

If you run it locally there should be no security concern, some of the distilled models can run on regular laptops.

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