Comment by kube-system

8 days ago

Anthropic has already been burned before on this. DeepSeek was trained on million of conversations with Claude. And DeepSeek created thousands of free accounts to burn all this compute at their expense.

And they're hilariously pissy about it for a megacorp that did the same with the entire Internet and every library book they could get their hands on.

Anthropic's claim was that Deepseek collected ~150k conversations.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...

I think the extent of distillation by Deepseek specifically is overstated. For comparison, Minimax collected over 13m 'exchanges', which starts to sound a lot more like large-scale distillation.

  • If that's all it took to make Deepseek so good, I'll gladly ship High-Flyer all my personal 150k claude/chatgpt conversations in exchange for Deepseek 5 (and a rack of B200s or Ascend chips)

  • Ah, dang it. My college professors warned me about this: the Wikipedia page I read the other day is wrong!

    • Did you read a Wikipedia page, or did you read a LLM-generated summary? When I looked this number up yesterday the LLM summary claimed it was millions, but I opened the Anthropic post I was looking for and verified it was indeed just 150,000. Are you sure you weren't just being lazy and trusting the summary?

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