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Reddit's /r/chatgpt subreddit is currently heavily brigaded by bots/shills praising r1, I'd be very suspicious of any claims about it.
by vlaaad 2y ago
Reddit's /r/chatgpt subreddit is currently heavily brigaded by bots/shills praising r1, I'd be very suspicious of any claims about it.
- butterlettuce 2y agoSource?
- rkozik1989 2y agoAnytime I hear somebody say bots/shills all imagine is the author being extremely butt hurt that their precious thing is not also everyone's favorite.
- Crye 2y agoYou can try it yourself, it's refreshingly good.
- sdesol 2y agoAgreed. I am no fan of the CCP but I have no issue with using DeepSeek since I only need to use it for coding which it does quite well. I still believe Sonnet is better. DeepSeek also struggles when the context window gets big. This might be hardware though. Having said that, DeepSeek is 10 times cheaper than Sonnet and better than GPT-4o for my use cases. Models are a commodity product and it is easy enough to add a layer above them to only use them for technical questions. If my usage can help v4, I am all for it as I know it is going to help everyone and not just the CCP. Should they stop publishing the weights and models, v3 can still take you quite far.
- spaceman_2020 2y agoCurious why you have to qualify this with a “no fan of the CCP” prefix. From the outset, this is just a private organization and its links to CCP aren’t any different than, say, Foxconn’s or DJI’s or any of the countless Chinese manufacturers and businesses You don’t invoke “I’m no fan of the CCP” before opening TikTok or buying a DJI drone or a BYD car. Then why this, because I’ve seen the same line repeated everywhere
- sdesol 2y agoAnything that becomes valuable will become a CCP property and it looks like DeepSeek may become that. The worry right now is that people feel using DeepSeek supports the CCP, just as using TikTok does. With LLMs we have static data that provides great control over what knowledge to extract from it.
- LunaSea 2y agoAny Chinese company above 500 employees requires a CCP representative on the board.
- almaight 2y agoThis is just an unfair clause set up to solve the employment problem of people within the system, to play a supervisory role and prevent companies from doing evil. In reality, it has little effect, and they still have to abide by the law.
- forrestthewoods 2y agoThe amount of astroturfing around R1 is absolutely wild to see. Full scale propaganda war.
- rightbyte 2y agoI would argue there is too little hype given the downloadable models for Deep Seek. There should be alot of hype around this organically. If anything, the other half good fully closed non ChatGPT models are astroturfing. I made a post in december 2023 whining about the non hype for Deep Seek. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505986
- forrestthewoods 2y agoPossible for that to also be true! There’s a lot of astroturfing from a lot of different parties for a few different reasons. Which is all very interesting.
- Philpax 2y agoHow do you know it's astroturfing and not legitimate hype about an impressive and open technical achievement?
- stevenhuang 2y agoHe doesn't, that's the fun part.
- rightbyte 2y agoYe I mean in practice it is impossible to verify. You can kind of smell it though and I smell nothing here, eventhough some of 100 listed authors should be HN users and write in this thread. Some obvious astroturf posts on HN seem to be on the template "Watch we did boring coorparate SaaS thing X noone cares about!" and then a disappropiate amount of comments and upvotes and 'this is a great idea', 'I used it, it is good' or congratz posts, compared to the usual cynical computer nerd everything sucks especially some minute detail about the CSS of your website mindset you'd expect.
- mtkd 2y agoThe counternarrative is that it is a very accomplished piece of work that most in the sector were not expecting -- it's open source with API available at fraction of comparable service cost It has upended a lot of theory around how much compute is likely needed over next couple of years, how much profit potential the AI model vendors have in nearterm and how big an impact export controls are having on China V3 took top slot on HF trending models for first part of Jan ... r1 has 4 of the top 5 slots tonight Almost every commentator is talking about nothing else
- buyucu 2y agoI'm running the 7b distillation on my laptop this very moment. It's an insanely good model. You don't need reddit to judge how good a model is.
- mediaman 2y agoYou can just use it and see for yourself. It's quite good. I do believe they were honest in the paper, but the $5.5m training cost (for v3) is defined in a limited way: only the GPU cost at $2/hr for the one training run they did that resulted in the final V3 model. Headcount, overhead, experimentation, and R&D trial costs are not included. The paper had something like 150 people on it, so obviously total costs are quite a bit higher than the limited scope cost they disclosed, and also they didn't disclose R1 costs. Still, though, the model is quite good, there are quite a few independent benchmarks showing it's pretty competent, and it definitely passes the smell test in actual use (unlike many of Microsoft's models which seem to be gamed on benchmarks).
- nowittyusername 2y agoIts pretty nutty indeed. The model still might be good, but the botting is wild. On that note, one of my favorite benchmarks to watch is simple bench and R! doesn't perform as well on that benchmark as all the other public benchmarks, so it might be telling of something.
- est 2y agoHere this very HN thread is heavily brigaded by everyone critizing it, because R1 can't reason "tienamen squre".
- Shocka1 2y agoI'm suspicious of many comments here as well. I've never seen this many < 4 week old accounts making so many comments about a product.