What’s making many people resent generative AI, and what impact does that have on the companies responsible? The recent reveal of DeepSeek-R1, the large scale LLM developed by a Chinese company (also named DeepSeek), has been a very interesting event for those of us who spend time observing and analyzing the cultural and social phenomena around AI. Evidence suggests that R1 was trained for a fraction of the price that it cost to train ChatGPT (any of their recent models, really), and there are a few reasons that might be true.

What does image generative AI really tell us about our world? I recently had the opportunity to provide analysis on an interesting project , and I had more to say than could be included in that single piece, so today I’m going to discuss some more of my thoughts about it. The approach the researchers took with this project involved providing a series of prompts to different generative AI image generation tools: Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, YandexART, and ERNIE-ViLG (by Baidu).