Henk van Ess's article DeepSeek: The Real Price of China's AI investigates DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, whose seemingly inexpensive ChatGPT competitor masks a sophisticated system of state control. DeepSeek's AI, while appearing cost-effective on the surface, is demonstrably limited in independent thought and strictly adheres to Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Today’s episode guides are, in style, the virtual hosts of NotebookLM.

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