Assertion certainty 4/5 debate potential 2/5

Webster: DeepSeek is slow, verbose, and outputs random Chinese characters

Ian Webster · How to use DeepSeek safely · Feb 28, 2025 · at 14:19

Ian Webster, founder of Promptfoo, evaluates DeepSeek's technical usability and output quality for standard developer use cases.

0:00 / 0:11exact quote · 11.7s

▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark

“Deep, deep seek isn't really a great daily driver. It's very slow. It's verbose and you know, it like throws random Chinese characters in, in its answers and stuff, stuff like that.”

quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →

The claim, plainly

DeepSeek is slow, verbose, and outputs random Chinese characters in its answers.

a quote alone can be ambiguous, so this restates it with the references and context of the conversation around it resolved. AI-written; the tape below the player is the source.

How this resolves

Verification couldn't pin this to a public evidence class, so it stays on the record with its date, unassessed rather than guessed.

no date stated; next review by 2028-02-28

Mentioned

DeepSeek

⚑ Spot an error? Report it

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Webster: DeepSeek is slow, verbose, and outputs random Chinese characters

Turn any episode into a week of clips.