Why would someone trust DeepSeek with questions and search queries if we can't  trust TikTok?

It's cool that they were able to get such a model built in a more affordable way but unless it's significantly better than alternatives, why would anyone use it?

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

Because it IS significantly better and dramatically cheaper AND the techniques + weights are open sourced so people are building on it and fine tuning the base. It also provides a whole new approach to achieving the state of the art.

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

I'm referring to the app specifically.

Is it really significantly better on everyday use?

I guess if you compare free ChatGPT vs free DeepSeek then it's better if r1 is available for free but not o1

I'm guessing the app is just a proxy to access R1