So DeepSeek has this very cool feature that displays what it is “thinking” before it gives you its answer. It’s quite neat in that you can see its “thought” process, but it also has the added benefit of revealing whatever bias it might have developed with its training data.
In this case, I asked it if we might be living in a “slow motion World War 3” with the Maiden Coup in Ukraine being the opening shots. The mf thought that I might “buy Russian propaganda” because I called it a coup rather than a revolution.
So although DeepSeek is Chinese, it was still very clearly trained on a lot of mainstream / information.
LLMs don’t think they just chew up and recycle garbage from the internet. Sometimes the recycled garbage is tasty, yum yum! Like you don’t know the right terms for something but you can describe it and by association it will find the right links for you (basically a search engine). But usually, recycled garbage is still garbage and churning it only makes it worse.