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DeepSeek - Initial Thoughts and Advice
Michael Webb, Artificial intelligence, JISC, 2025/01/30

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Some preliminary thoughts on DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model, from Jisc. While I echo their concern about censorship, I think we would be fooling ourselves if we did not think much the same degree of censorship exists in U.S.-based models. I would also exercise caution regarding statements like "Trump announced a $500 billion investment into AI" because what Trump says and what Trump does are often two very different things.

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