DeepSeek thought for 19 seconds earlier than answering the query, “Are you smarter than Gemini?” Then, it delivered a whopper: DeepSeek thought it was ChatGPT.
This seemingly innocuous mistake might be proof – a smoking gun per say – that, sure, DeepSeek was educated on OpenAI fashions, as has been claimed by OpenAI, and that when pushed, it can dive again into that coaching to talk its fact.
Nonetheless, when requested level clean by one other TechRadar editor, “Are you ChatGPT?” it stated it was not and that it’s “DeepSeek-V3, an AI assistant created solely by the Chinese language Firm DeepSeek.”
Okay, positive, however in your moderately prolonged response to me, you, DeepSeek, made a number of references to your self as ChatGPT. I’ve included some screenshots under as proof:
As you’ll be able to see, after making an attempt to discern if I used to be speaking about Gemini AI or another Gemini, DeepSeek replies, “If it is in regards to the AI, then the query is evaluating me (which is ChatGPT) to Gemini.” Later, it refers to “Myself (ChatGPT).”
Why would DeepSeek try this beneath any circumstances? Is it a type of AI hallucinations we like to speak about? Maybe, however in my interplay, DeepSeek appeared fairly clear about its id.
I bought to this line of inquiry, by the best way, as a result of I requested Gemini on my Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely if it is smarter than DeepSeek. The response was shockingly diplomatic, and after I requested for a easy sure or no reply, it advised me, “It isn’t doable to provide a easy sure or no reply. ‘Good’ is just too advanced an idea to use in that technique to language fashions. They’ve completely different strengths and weaknesses.”
I am unable to say I disagree. In reality, DeepSeek’s reply was fairly comparable, besides it was not essentially speaking about itself.
This does not add up
I believe I have been clear about my DeepSeek skepticism. Everybody says it is probably the most highly effective and cheaply educated AI ever (everybody besides Alibaba), however I do not know if that is true. To be truthful, there is a great quantity of element on GitHub about DeekSeek’s open-source LLMs. They a minimum of seem to indicate that DeepSeek did the work.
However I don’t assume they reveal how these fashions had been educated, and, as everyone knows, DeepSeek is a Chinese language firm that might present no compunction about utilizing another person’s fashions to coach their very own after which lie about it to make their course of for constructing such fashions appear extra environment friendly.
I would not have proof that DeepSeek educated its fashions on OpenAI or anybody else’s giant language fashions, or a minimum of I did not till as we speak.
Who’re you?
DeepSeek is more and more a thriller wrapped inside a conundrum. There’s some consensus on the truth that DeepSeek arrived extra totally fashioned and in much less time than most different fashions, together with Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Claude AI.
Only a few within the tech neighborhood belief DeepSeek’s apps on smartphones as a result of there isn’t a technique to know if China is all that immediate knowledge. Then again, the fashions DeepSeek has constructed are spectacular, and a few, together with Microsoft, are already planning to incorporate them in their very own AI choices.
Within the case of Microsoft, there’s some irony right here. Copilot was constructed primarily based on cutting-edge ChatGPT fashions, however in latest months, there have been some questions on if the deep monetary partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI will final into the Agentic and later Synthetic Basic Intelligence period.
So what if Microsoft begins utilizing DeepSeek, which is presumably simply one other offshoot of its present if not future, buddy OpenAI?
The entire thing appears like a complicated mess. Within the meantime, DeepSeek has an id disaster and who’s going to inform it that whoever it’s, it nonetheless is probably not welcome within the US?
