The media response to DeepSeek is fullblown hypocrisy particularly re western tech industry. You know whats fascinating about this #DeepSeek is how AI ‘gurus’ (or whatever term they want to dignify themselves with) suddenly screaming ‘privacy nightmare’ and ‘censorship’, yet their feeds are full of glorification of #ChatGPT and #Gemini. These are the same people who turned a blind eye on severe human rights issues with Western AI models.
DeepSeek’s issues with regards to censorship should NOT be ignored, but if there’s one lesson to pick up from here is that the AI bubble is nearing its end. Deepseek opened boundaries that were once closed because of US techbro oligarchy. Deepseek is what OpenAI promised to be in the beginning, but Altman changed his mind and now wanna profit off it.
Deepseek took a large bite off the big plate of US tech oligopoly. It tells us that we actually dont need to burn the whole planet down just for another large language model #llm . And the fact that such #AI ‘democratisation’ (loosely defined) is happening outside of the self-proclaimed world democracy is the biggest irony of 2025 so far. If anything, it serves as a reminder that the future of technology should not be solely dictated by a few nations, may that be #China or the #US. AND IM HERE FOR IT
*For shitheads who like jump into comments with low comprehension level. This POST isnt about open source. DeepSeek isnt even open source. Its open weights. This is about geopolitics.