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Github Copilot users are discovering Deepseek (www.reddit.com)
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There is just a trove of comments here, I was going to pick out the best, but honestly, there's something in here for everyone.

Ok here is the obvious stand-out:

Also, user KamalaHarrisWaifu has a lot of "takes" in the thread.

I actually have no idea to what extent the cost of Deepseek (or other Chinese models) are subsidized. One thing is true though, the grid these things exist on in China is owned by the state, and not privately owned, which I'm sure changes the calculus. (Not to mention the sheer capacity of said grid being off the charts).

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 59 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Exactly. Humans are built to optimize. Our bodies optimize energy, our brains optimize decisions, and our workflows optimize time and cost.

God I hate techbros, I hate that I was a techbro and I hate that I can't yet jump out of this shit to farm.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The tech bro mind optimises for cringe

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They need to let AI write their replies, I'm 100% sure that AI is incapable of reaching this level of cringe.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A machine if can never feel embarrassment therefore a machine must never post cringe.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This type of people doesn't know what embarrassment is, if they did they wouldn't post cringe.

We need to normalize bullying again, nerd epidemic is a problem.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not sure that it helped. And if so where's the sweet spot between what we got and killing Alan Turing with chemical castration?

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hmm maybe we can get a rule if you post cringe you get punishment and repeatedly cringe post gets more severe punishments.

A simple light slap in the back of the head with "Tsk, shut the fuck up nerd" in this case can prevent more cringe post from this person.

The level of cringe post from Elon Musk is death sentence.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In what gruesome way are we putting Nathan Fielder to death then?

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have no idea who he is

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

He got really good grades at one of Canada's top business schools.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 36 points 3 days ago

Your quote is the kind of shit that made me genuinely question if I'm human before i got diagnosed with ADHD.

I was built to deoptimize. I was built to chill and cause minor chaos.

[–] shath@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

this is the deepest shit ever if you're a fucking idiot

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

you just need to optimize your optimization strategy that deploy yourself optimally.

[–] NewDark@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I feel this take from the bottom of my soul

[–] RandallThymes@hexbear.net 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m forced to use LLM bullshit at work and out of curiosity I tried a 5 dollar trial plan for some Chinese models including deepseek, replicated my usual workflows and they completely destroyed the expensive western models on our corporate plan.

They just did what I asked quickly and efficiently, compared to Claude which bumbled around and seemed to be trying to drive up the costs as much as possible before getting close to what I had asked for.

I still don’t really care for the technology but I am impressed it’s reached a point where it can chuck out a prototype application in 15 minutes for less than a dollars worth of “tokens”.

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just from fucking around with them I've noticed Anthropic models in particular tend to just not take what you say at face value. Like they will twist your words and basically respond to something you never even said in the first place. Or they'll decide that you asking what type of screw to use means you want a rundown of what every type of screw is and the pros and cons of all of them. lmao.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I remember a bunch of people complaining about the shift from ChatGPT 4 to 5 and how 5 "lacked warmth" and "felt robotic." Comparing some of the responses (this is the only context in which I use ChatGPT), I actually found 5 to be much less obnoxious. It acted like a machine instead of a cloying manipulative sycophant.

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

I literally can't stand using western models partly because of this. They just deep throat it the whole conversation. Chinese models are much more likely to just do the task and shut it. The worst part is recent western models try to be quippy or talk like they're your buddy i guess? Like I've noticed some of them will now start responses with something along the lines of: "Oh, dang! That's a pretty interesting thing!" or like when I was showing Google Gemini an error log and asked it to pick out the errors I needed so I didn't have to read the whole thing it would be like "Look at that! We're so close to this thing working! 90% of the way there. Just one little thing needs fixed..." ugh, shut the fuck up. Do what I asked machine. Why do they insist on making it talk like that? It's gross.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

They wanted a cloying manipulative sycophant

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

I want my robots to feel robotic

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

v4-Flash is so fast you can't even keep up with what it's doing half the time.

[–] pongo1231@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

From my point of view those people can call China's system whatever they want, be it socialism or "capitalism for the benefit of society", when the end result is them agreeing that it's working better than what we have in the west. As long as their brains haven't been melted enough for them to call it fascism or something.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago

China is socialist in name only

But Nazi Germany? Definitely, really, socialist. It's in the name! so-true

also, kelly SINO-phobe

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Deepseek models are infamously inexpensive compared to the American models. That's their whole claim to fame. They can charge low prices because it only cost like a few hundred million US to train their last two gen of models, compared to the several billions that OAI and Anthropic have each dropped.

I'm guessing there's some subsidies going on, but they also have better business fundamentals and a functional green grid to work with.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

KamalaHarrisWaifu

catgirl-disgust do not fuck the bunny-cop

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

China's electricity is 37% renewables (and increasing) while US electricity grid is 22% renewables (and decreasing). Discounting the payment option, just for environmental reason if you really have to use AI to help you with something (like debugging a code) you should use Deepseek.

[–] canary8805@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Hmmm.. Maybe I should stop using duck.ai and use Deepseek.

[–] ghosts@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Top 1% commenter

I love that reddit-logo added their own flair for brainless dorks

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

I've never seen a Top 1% commenter I didn't hate.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lol that's some insane cope right there. Also where does the $18k chinese subsidies figure comes from lol. People forgetting that deepseek was just a side hustle?

The only claim you can have about deepseek being subsidized is the entire state-owned infrastructure that supplies critical inputs like energy, but at that point you're conceding that socialism is a better system.

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