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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 answering the question, "Are you smarter than Gemini?" Then, it delivered a whopper: DeepSeek thought it was ChatGPT.

This apparently harmless error could be proof - a smoking weapon per se - that, yes, was trained on OpenAI designs, as has been claimed by OpenAI, which when pressed, it will dive back into that training to speak its fact.

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

Okay, sure, but in your rather prolonged action to me, you, DeepSeek, made several referrals to yourself as ChatGPT. I have actually included some screenshots below as proof:

As you can see, after trying to discern if I was talking 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 refers to "Myself (ChatGPT)."

Why would DeepSeek do that under any scenarios? Is it one of those AI hallucinations we like to talk about? Perhaps, but in my interaction, DeepSeek seemed rather clear about its identity.

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

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

This doesn't accumulate

I think I've been clear about my DeepSeek apprehension. Everyone says it's the most powerful and cheaply trained AI ever (everyone except Alibaba), but I don't understand if that's real. To be fair, there's a tremendous quantity of detail 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 expose how these models were trained. In any case, I do not have evidence that DeepSeek trained its models on OpenAI or anyone else's large language models - or at least I didn't until today.

Who are you?

DeepSeek is significantly a secret wrapped inside a conundrum. There is some consensus on the fact that DeepSeek showed up more completely formed and in less time than many other designs, including Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Claude AI.

Very few in the tech neighborhood trust DeepSeek's apps on mobile phones due to the fact that there is no chance to understand if China is looking at all that prompt data. On the other hand, the designs DeepSeek has built are remarkable, and some, consisting of Microsoft, are currently preparing to include them in their own AI offerings.

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

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

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

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A 38-year industry veteran and award-winning reporter, Lance has actually covered innovation given that PCs were the size of suitcases and "on line" indicated "waiting." He's a previous Lifewire Editor-in-Chief, Mashable Editor-in-Chief, and, before that, Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis, Inc. He also wrote a popular, weekly tech column for Medium called The Upgrade.

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