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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The amount of people spamming ‘deepseek’ on YouTube comments and live streams is insane. Definitely have a shit load of shadow funding

[–] Alphane_Moon 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 9 points 3 weeks ago

It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.

[–] paraphrand 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] spookex 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.