The FAIK Files - DeepSeek Disrupts Everything

Jan 30 2025 66 mins

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.

This week, we’re tackling:

DeepSeek -- the little LLM from China that's taking the world by storm.

Perry & Mason interview voice artist Keith Brown to see what he learned about AI while narrating Perry's book.

And our AI dumpster fire of the week doesn't disappoint!

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

DeepSeek comes in swinging:

Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI's o1 at 98% Lower Cost

Deep seek Janus-Pro-7B: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI

DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

Keith Brown Interview:

Keith Brown's website

FAIK on Audiobook (Amazon Associates link)

AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (more DeepSeek):

Jevons paradox

What Is 'Jevons Paradox' And How Is It Tied To DeepSeek AI?

Experiment showing DeepSeek actively erasing what it knows about certain events

Experiment to show DeepSeek's bias

Andy Ayrey asks DeepSeek to write a story

Anthropic's paper on LLM Sleeper Agents

Also be sure to check out chapter 4 of Perry's book, which covers inherent bias, sleeper agents, etc...

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***

About The FAIK Files:

The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.