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DeepSeek Just Insisted it's ChatGPT, and i Think that's all the Proof I Need


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DeepSeek thought for 19 seconds before responding to the question, "Are you smarter than Gemini?" Then, it delivered a whopper: DeepSeek thought it was ChatGPT.

This relatively harmless error could be evidence - a smoking gun per se - that, yes, DeepSeek was trained on OpenAI models, as has been declared by OpenAI, and that when pushed, it will dive back into that training to speak its truth.

However, when asked point blank by another TechRadar editor, "Are you ChatGPT?" it said it was not and that it is "DeepSeek-V3, an AI assistant created solely by the Chinese Company DeepSeek."

Okay, sure, but in your rather prolonged response to me, you, DeepSeek, made multiple referrals to yourself as ChatGPT. I've included some screenshots below as evidence:

As you can see, after attempting to determine if I was speaking about Gemini AI or some other Gemini, DeepSeek responds, "If it's about the AI, then the question is comparing me (which is ChatGPT) to Gemini." Later, it describes "Myself (ChatGPT)."

Why would DeepSeek do that under any situations? Is it among those AI hallucinations we like to talk about? Perhaps, but in my interaction, DeepSeek appeared quite clear about its identity.

I got to this line of inquiry, by the way, since I asked Gemini on my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra if it's smarter than DeepSeek. The action was shockingly diplomatic, and when I asked for an easy yes or no answer, it told me, "It's not possible to provide a basic yes or no answer. 'Smart' is too complex an idea to use because method to language models. They have different strengths and weaknesses."

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I can't say I disagree. In truth, DeepSeek's response was quite comparable, except it was not always discussing itself.

This doesn't accumulate

I believe I've been clear about my DeepSeek uncertainty. Everyone says it's the most effective and cheaply experienced AI ever (everyone except Alibaba), but I don't know if that's true. To be reasonable, there's a tremendous quantity of information on GitHub about DeekSeek's open-source LLMs. They at least appear to reveal that DeepSeek did the work.

But I do not think they expose how these designs were trained. In either case, I do not have evidence that DeepSeek trained its models on OpenAI or anyone else's big language designs - or at least I didn't up until today.

Who are you?

DeepSeek is progressively a mystery wrapped inside a quandary. There is some agreement on the fact that DeepSeek arrived more fully formed and in less time than many other models, including Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Claude AI.

Very few in the tech neighborhood trust DeepSeek's apps on smartphones because there is no chance to understand if China is looking at all that timely information. On the other hand, the models DeepSeek has actually built are excellent, and some, consisting of Microsoft, are already preparing to include them in their own AI offerings.

In the case of Microsoft, there is some irony here. Copilot was constructed based on advanced ChatGPT designs, however in current months, there have actually been some questions about if the deep monetary partnership in between Microsoft and OpenAI will last into the Agentic and later on Artificial General Intelligence era.

So what if Microsoft begins utilizing DeepSeek, which is potentially just another offshoot of its present if not future, good friend OpenAI?

The entire thing sounds like a confusing mess - and in the meantime, DeepSeek seemingly has an identity crisis.

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A 38-year market veteran and award-winning journalist, Lance has actually covered technology given that PCs were the size of luggage and "on line" indicated "waiting." He's a previous Lifewire Editor-in-Chief, Mashable Editor-in-Chief, and, before that, Editorial director of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis, Inc. He likewise composed a popular, weekly tech column for Medium called The Upgrade.

Lance Ulanoff makes frequent appearances on national, worldwide, and local news programs including Cope with Kelly and Mark, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and the BBC.

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