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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by bonplan23 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:45AM (#50164196)
Also the concern that open weights models could contain dormant adversarial behavior (i.e. they are sleeper agents) is more popular amongst decision makers than one would think.

In that regard it was a clever marketing move by Anthropic to release their paper "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training" ....

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by jacquesm on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:07AM (#50164444)
Well, they do. So you review the output. Models should be treated as juniors, not a line of code or legalese they write should be used without review by a human, not another AI.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by ben_w on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:12AM (#50164491)
> In that regard it was a clever marketing move by Anthropic to release their paper "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training" ....

I find such claims a bit like if 3M/DuPont released a paper on the carcinogen dangers of PFAS and someone said this was "a clever marketing move".

Like, great, this can have hidden dangers we only learn about years after it's irreversible… how does this make "our"* companies the good guys?

A lot of us were already concerned about backdoors mandated by the US government, but that was just encryption and this is everything that AI ends up being able to do.

* in the sense of "the G7" until the start of this year, because why would other nations prefer us over China in the first place, and thanks to Trump vs. Canada, Greenland, Iceland also now the rest of the G7 has to treat seriously the possibility that the US is more of an expansionist threat than China is.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by cowboylowrez on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:03AM (#50165024)
I love how Anthropic has created Frankensteins monster security wise and then pointing at it and yelling "DANGEROUS" haha
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by WarmWash on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:48AM (#50166398)
Tech never got burned by China like manufacturing did, so their is a lot of naive ignorance around China's "goodwill".
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by ambione on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:23AM (#50166907)
burned? your business leaders willingly sold out your manufacturing industries to make just a little bit more money, knowing itd devastate many. It was your own who sold out your working class time and time again, not "big boogeyman china" pulling the strings.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by WarmWash on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:27AM (#50166988)
...and here are all the tech boys running to use Chinese models to save a little themselves. I'd say that is a pretty clear parallel, no?

Same trick, just too naive to see it.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by LtWorf on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:28AM (#50167886)
You realise that the grand plan of the USA is to make everyone unemployed right?