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How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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"DeepSeek’s policy states that it stores the information for 'further training' of the chatbot in Chinese servers. While it’s not something to get panicked about (most of the applications follow the same principle, despite not being overly open about it)"

Is this really true?

Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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"DeepSeek’s policy states that it stores the information for 'further training' of the chatbot in Chinese servers. While it’s not something to get panicked about (most of the applications follow the same principle, despite not being overly open about it)" Is this really true?

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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post #3

"DeepSeek’s policy states that it stores the information for 'further training' of the chatbot in Chinese servers. While it’s not something to get panicked about (most of the applications follow the same principle, despite not being overly open about it)" Is this really true?

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

Anthropic says

> To date we have not used any customer or user-submitted data to train our generative models.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet

There's an obvious problem with the concept of training on user prompts; how would training on a bunch of questions cause it to know the answers?

Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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post #3

"DeepSeek’s policy states that it stores the information for 'further training' of the chatbot in Chinese servers. While it’s not something to get panicked about (most of the applications follow the same principle, despite not being overly open about it)" Is this really true?

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

Anthropic states that they don't train on the inputs and outputs of their commercial offerings unless you explicitly opt-in: https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/7996868-i-want-to-...

Do you think they're lying or where you speaking about free tier offerings?

Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

Anthropic says > To date we have not used any customer or user-submitted data to train our generative models. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet There's an obvious problem with the concept of training on user prompts; how would training on a bunch of questions cause it to know the answers?

User queries were at least historically useful to train smaller models from larger models. You need to know the kind of questions real people ask to train a model that’s good at answering those questions

Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

Anthropic says > To date we have not used any customer or user-submitted data to train our generative models. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet There's an obvious problem with the concept of training on user prompts; how would training on a bunch of questions cause it to know the answers?

"There's an obvious problem with the concept of training on user prompts; how would training on a bunch of questions cause it to know the answers?"

I imagine by analysing the chat? If the user says thanks in the end, or gives a thumps up, it likely was a useful and correct answer, that could be included in further training. Or at least considered for future training and I cannot imagine them not considering and experimenting with it.

Re: How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

Anthropic says > To date we have not used any customer or user-submitted data to train our generative models. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet There's an obvious problem with the concept of training on user prompts; how would training on a bunch of questions cause it to know the answers?

Back when I started using LLMs for writing code I would type out long, gently phrased explanations about why it was wrong, as if I was teaching a pupil, hoping it would help. I'm sure a lot of us did. If they can parse and mine those prompts, they'll have a nice little metacorpus to build on.

Now I just tell it to stop being stupid over and over until it does a good job. I wonder if it would improve the model to keep all of the beratement in the training data.

Edit: Apparently a 'metacorpus' is a swollen nematode ass. My sincerest apologies, bros.

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