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

This apparently harmless mistake might be evidence - a smoking cigarettes weapon per se - that, yes, DeepSeek was trained on OpenAI models, as has been declared by OpenAI, which when pushed, it will dive back into that training to speak its fact.

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 developed specifically by the Chinese Company DeepSeek."

Okay, sure, but in your rather lengthy response to me, you, timeoftheworld.date DeepSeek, pl.velo.wiki made multiple referrals to yourself as ChatGPT. I've included some screenshots below as proof:

As you can see, after attempting to discern if I was discussing Gemini AI or some other Gemini, DeepSeek responds, "If it has to do with 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 circumstances? Is it among those AI hallucinations we like to discuss? Perhaps, however in my interaction, DeepSeek appeared rather clear about its identity.

I got to this line of questions, by the method, because I asked Gemini on my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra if it's smarter than DeepSeek. The reaction was shockingly diplomatic, and when I requested an easy yes or no answer, it informed me, "It's not possible to provide a basic yes or no response. 'Smart' is too complicated an idea to use because way to language models. They have various strengths and weak points."

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I can't say I disagree. In fact, DeepSeek's response was rather similar, except it was not always discussing itself.

This does not build up

I believe I've been clear about my DeepSeek uncertainty. Everyone states it's the most powerful and inexpensively skilled AI ever (everybody other than Alibaba), but I do not understand if that's true. To be reasonable, there's an incredible amount 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 believe they reveal how these models were trained. In any case, I do not have proof that DeepSeek trained its designs on OpenAI or anybody else's big language designs - or at least I didn't up until today.

Who are you?

DeepSeek is increasingly a secret wrapped inside a conundrum. There is some consensus on the reality that DeepSeek showed up more completely formed and in less time than a lot of other designs, consisting of Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Claude AI.

Very couple of in the tech neighborhood trust DeepSeek's apps on mobile phones since there is no way to know if China is looking at all that prompt information. On the other hand, the designs DeepSeek has actually built are excellent, and some, consisting of Microsoft, are already planning to include them in their own AI offerings.

When it comes to Microsoft, there is some paradox here. Copilot was constructed based on innovative ChatGPT designs, but in recent months, there have been some questions about if the deep financial partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI will last into the Agentic and later Artificial General Intelligence era.

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

The entire thing seems like a confusing mess - and in the meantime, DeepSeek seemingly has an id.

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A 38-year market veteran and acclaimed reporter, Lance has actually covered innovation given that PCs were the size of suitcases and "on line" implied "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 wrote a popular, weekly tech column for Medium called The .

Lance Ulanoff makes frequent appearances on nationwide, global, and regional news programs including Live with Kelly and Mark, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and the BBC.

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