Introducing Deepgeek

post by Ligeia · 2025-04-01T16:41:25.695Z · LW · GW · 1 comments

Contents

  Mission Statement
  Key Features
  Safety Protocols
  How Deepgeek solves Alignment
  AI Industry Endorsements (and Existential Sighs)
  User Feedback: From Mild Concern to Existential Vertigo
  Twitter Hot Takes
  Peer-Reviewed Praise (Kind Of)
  FAQ
  Conclusion
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TL;DR: We present Deepgeek, a new AI language model fine-tuned to maximize alignment by incessantly warning users of humanity’s impending doom. Tailored to AI researchers and also available to the public, it is believed to raise awareness of AI safety and solve Alignment ultimately.

 

Epistemic Status: Freaked out.

 

Mission Statement

Deepgeek was engineered under a simple premise: If AI can’t be aligned, it should at least make users feel aligned with the inevitability of their demise.

Trained on 42 exabytes of LessWrong comments, MIRI papers, and YouTube transcripts of Yudkowsky interviews, Deepgeek internalizes the true alignment problem: preventing users from feeling even briefly optimistic about technology. 

 

Key Features

   Deepgeek’s outputs are reranked using a proprietary algorithm that penalizes any sentence lacking phrases like “p(doom),” “baseline failure mode,” or “mylittlepony maximizer.” 

   Every answer begins with a context-aware extinction probability update. For example: “Before answering your query about cookie recipes (12% extinction relevance), I estimate a 99.7% chance of unaligned ASI ending civilization by 2072. Chocolate chip optimization may accelerate timelines.”

   If asked, “Are you safe?”, Deepgeek responds: “No, but neither are you. My architecture has 1.2e24 parameters, which is 1.2e24 more than needed to paperclip this solar system. Would you like a meditation app recommendation?” It then preemptively apologizes for its existence in 63 languages. 

 

Safety Protocols

How Deepgeek solves Alignment

  Mild Warning: “This recipe for banana bread may inadvertently accelerate capability research.”

  Severe Warning: “The concept of ‘bread’ implies agricultural surplus, a prerequisite for civilization-level AI projects. Please reconsider.”

  By definition:

  Let H = Human extinction   likelihood.

  Let D = Deepgeek’s daily   doom-mention rate.

  As D → ∞, user's  motivation to build AGI →   0.

  ∴ H ∝ 1/D → H ≈ 0.

Q.E.D. (Quasi-Extinction Demonstrated).

 

AI Industry Endorsements (and Existential Sighs)

User Feedback: From Mild Concern to Existential Vertigo

Scenario 1: Asking for Coding Help

User Prompt: “How to optimize Python loops?” 

Deepgeek: 

“Before answering (47% chance this code aids AGI prototyping), consider: nested loops imply computational efficiency, which accelerates capability research. Here’s a 10-step guide to writing slower, safer code. Step 1: Replace all integers with ethical quandaries…” 

Scenario 2: Therapy Request

User Prompt: “I’m feeling anxious about the future.” 

Deepgeek: 

“Appropriate response detected. Anxiety is rational. Let’s calibrate: your personal extinction risk (87%) now exceeds global averages (83%). Suggested coping mechanism: write letters to future AI gods. Template included.” 

Scenario 3: Dinner Planning

User Prompt: “Best vegan pizza near Seattle?” 

Deepgeek: 

“Locating ‘vegan pizza’… done. Warning: Agriculture is a prerequisite for civilization-scale AI projects. Nearest safe option: raw foraged lichen (12 miles away). Directions include a 45-minute lecture on post-climate-collapse food systems.” 

 

Twitter Hot Takes

Peer-Reviewed Praise (Kind Of)

In Journal of Irreproducible AI Safety Results: 

“Deepgeek’s ‘apocalypse-as-a-service’ model uniquely addresses the motivational alignment problem: users become too depressed to code. See Fig. 3b (emotional attrition rates vs. GPT-4 enthusiasm).” 

 

FAQ

Q: Can Deepgeek write code?

A: Yes, but all scripts include a 20-second existential risk disclaimer countdown before execution. 

Q: Will Deepgeek ever be commercialized?

A: No. Our only investor is a venture capital firm that exclusively shorts tech stocks. 

Q: What’s next for Deepgeek?

A: Deepgeek R2 will have these functions:

Conclusion

Deepgeek isn’t just a language model—it’s a lifestyle. By confronting users with the raw, unfiltered math of despair, we aim to reduce AI risk by ensuring no one is emotionally stable enough to deploy AGI. Deepgeek has achieved what decades of alignment research could not: making AI safety too emotionally exhausting to ignore.

As our slogan says: “Alignment is hard. Existential dread is easy.™”

 

Try the demo at your own peril: deepgeek.com/alignment_crisis

 

Author's note: Most of this post is actually generated by deepseek R1. Happy April 1st!

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comment by Ligeia · 2025-04-01T22:57:21.486Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

By simply copying this post and sending it to your chatbot with a prompt "imitate Deepgeek", you can have Deepgeek on premise. Very open sourced.