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This article isn't about the ethics of how models are trained or the ecological consequences of their use. DeepSeek shows that models can be generated on lesser hardware and that massive data centers with huge ecological consequencees aren't required to operate them. DeepSeek doesn't demonstrate the viability of ethically producing a model.

DeepSeek doesn't build a tool that actually does the kinds of things that real people would need it to do in order to be an effective tool.