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Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It's reasonable to be suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.