Comment on China’s ambassador criticises Australia’s move to limit DeepSeek

• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their models and a lot of their training and code to run it are

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  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is not open source according to the accepted definition. There is no such thing as “a lot” open source, or partly open source. This is just part of Deepseek’s PR campaign very much as many other false claims.

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    • shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The code they have released is under the MIT licence which is most definitely an OSI approved Open Source licence.

      The model’s licence grants rights in perpetuity to use and redistribute but imposes a number of conditions on usage. I would concede that it does not satisfy the conditions to be considered an open source license do to those conditions which exclude military use, harming minors, defamatory content, generating misinformation etc.

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      • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If we’re going to be specific, then those restrictions just mean it’s not FOSS according to the Free Software Foundation. The source is still open, it’s auditable.

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      • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The guys at Hugging Face have been working on an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1, although I don’t know how they circumvent Chinese censorship (it’s also censored if you use Deepseek locally).

        Another open source AI model beats DeepSeek with 86% less data.

        All this Deepseek hysteria is just based on a simple press statement released by the company. It’s another totally over-hyped model with false claims that comes with even more disadvantages than most of its rivals.

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