Conspiracy Theorist’s Advocate (4) Artificial Intelligence is It Just A Scam? Let’s Do Some DeepSeek(ing)

The reason I ask this is simple. The Chinese have developed an AI engine that is supposedly 10-times more efficient than its US counterparts. But is that really true? I can’t be sure, I have never seen the system in person. But look at the date of the DeepSeek-R1 was released to the public.

DeepSeek's success has already been noticed in China's top political circles. On January 20, the day DeepSeek-R1 was released to the public, founder Liang attended a closed-door symposium for businessman and experts hosted by Chinese premier Li Qiang, according to state news agency Xinhua.
Liang's presence at the gathering is potentially a sign that DeepSeek's success could be important to Beijing's policy goal of overcoming Washington's export controls and achieving self-sufficiency in strategic industries like AI.

However, I do know this. I ran a Meta Llama AI model at home on an older machine I had laying around. It was an i5-2500K with 16Gb of RAM. I slapped in an SSD, installed Ubuntu Server, and ran the AI model. Was it slow? Oh... yes! It took about 15 minutes to formulate a simple answer to the prompt, “How are you doing today?”

What did I learn from this? First, I learned that none of the models that you are able to run (for free) that I could find were capable of going out to the Internet to gather data and bring it back. They could only formulate answers based on the data set they already had. That data is downloaded when you started it up. So, you couldn’t ask it about anything that just happened. That’s not to say that you can’t do that with Micro$oft’s commercial AI model, or the commercial version of OpenAI. I’ll have to cover that in another post.

Second, I learned that what I was running was seriously slow. But it wasn’t slow to the extent that I would need billions of dollars to build a data center of my own to make it fast enough to be useful. I could have spent around $1,000 dollars and put together a purpose-built machine that would have made it fast enough for me to use it, at least one-on-one.

Now if I put it on the Internet it would get many more hits, and become bogged down quickly, but that’s not an issue for development, and development is where all the money is being funneled to in the AI space.

Where am I going with all this? I still believe that there’s some hidden angle to AI. There a hidden element of fraud lurking just beneath the surface. I have a few theories on this. The first of which is this:

AI is likely just a new gatekeeper tool. Who controls the AI? Who programs it and teaches it? More importantly, who keeps info from it?

AI is going to do precisely what the people in charge want it to do, otherwise they wouldn't start putting it out there, and have people running around to hype it.

If it mattered in the ways many are describing -- they would never allow access to the masses. And in the form the masses will be allowed to access it -- it will be strategically manipulated.

The Internet was hyped in precisely the same way that AI is being hyped now. “All the information you could possibly need. You won't need a lawyer -- because you can look up case law.” “All of the world’s information right at your fingertips.”

But what did we get in reality? A censored and lame version of what was initially “sold” and hyped.

AI will likely be no different. AI will be the new “expert” in the room, or in all rooms.

Only, AI is not an expert, and those who program it will make sure that it does a much better job of censoring truth and hiding the misdeeds of those in power.

People are to trust AI to the extent that it becomes rather unquestionable. After all AI is like a digital Dr. Strange, it’s already run all the simulations -- and this is the only path in which we win and save humanity. Oh, and it says you’ll own nothing, be a slave, and live in a 15-minute city. 🤣😂

Sure, AI will take the jobs of people in call centers, because in reality they were just another kind of gatekeeper. You're not supposed to get to get ahold of a real person -- because they might actually be able to help you. However, it’s likely that you agreed to this kind of “non-service” in the contract you effectively signed when you agreed to pay for the service right?

There was a game my kids would play called Unturned. It would peg out the GPU on any machine that you ran it on. It didn’t matter if it was a brand new $4,000 video card, it would peg it out and the game had super cheesy graphics. I was joking with my kids, I said, “I bet Unturned is really a backdoor for Bitcoin mining. You play this lame game with cheesy graphics, meanwhile you’re really paying the power bill for someone to mine Bitcoin on your hardware!” Of course, I was joking, but others were wondering the same thing! I even looked it up once, this is what I found:

And this post.

However, this got me thinking about AI and Big Tech -- and the billions of dollars they’re promised by the US Government under the Trump administration.

Here are a few spitball ideas that could make the AI industry completely implode (more than it has in the last few hours of 01-28-25).

1. The Chinese AI engine is on the Internet, and is really just a crafty API for OpenAI, or the Microsoft AI? After all, they say it’s “on par” with OpenAI and Microsoft AI -- what if it is OpenAI and Microsoft AI on the back-end?!

   === UPDATE 01/29/25 === My prediction might not be too far off. See here.

   Microsoft, a close partner of OpenAI, is reportedly also investigating the issue after its researchers noticed individuals potentially linked to DeepSeek extracting large amounts of data from the AI firm’s application programming interface [API] last fall, according to Bloomberg.

   White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks claimed Tuesday that there is “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek used distillation to pull information from OpenAI’s models.

   “I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about this,” he told Fox News. “I think one of the things you’re going to see over the next few months is our leading AI companies taking steps to try and prevent distillation.”

2. The Big Tech firms are using most of the investment money to mine Bitcoin, and they run the AI on a fraction of the total computer power being consumed by their AI ventures. They’ll walk away multi billionaires without anyone really being able to prove that they did it. After all, fleecing the US taxpayer is a form of art in the Big Tech space. Results don’t matter so much.
3. The Chinese just exposed the American AI industry’s scam -- effectively pulling [investment] money from the US AI industry (by illustrating the excessive amount of computing power “required” by US tech firms). The Chinese are actually working on real AI -- not just some elaborate scam.
4. The US Government (taxpayer money) steps in and backs US Big Tech firms in the AI space, allowing them to keep the scam running -- only now with government funds.

When the Chinese government funds an effort, who benefits? The Chinese government, right? Not the Chinese people (as a whole).

When the US Government funds and effort, who benefits? The US Government will own the AI space -- because they’re backing the development. Does that sound like a good idea to you?

Is any of this real? Who knows, but at this point it nothing would surprise me.

What do you think?

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