Use DeepSeek to tell fortunes

AI is used for fortune telling in China. Illustration: Created by AI.

According to the China Association for Science and Technology, after becoming famous since the beginning of this year, DeepSeek's application has been increasingly expanded in the country of a billion people. However, the top tool when users search is the aforementioned AI fortune-telling solution. Not stopping at just a joke, the number of people using and discussing this application is huge.

DeepSeek also has a special fondness for feng shui bracelets, frequently recommending them to customers as “destiny-changing tools.” This led to a craze earlier this year. However, experts advise users not to be superstitious or trust AI fortune-telling.

Posts advertising how to use DeepSeek for fortune telling. Photo: QQ.

When a user provides their date of birth, DeepSeek begins to calculate their “eight characters,” based on the date and time of birth. The information seems reasonable at first. But at the end of the results, it recommends customers buy feng shui bracelets. This is similar to real-life service providers.

Many Chinese people trust DeepSeek more because it was trained on a large amount of data from the country of a billion people. The answers from this chatbot seem to understand and suit customers in this country.

Before DeepSeek, ChatGPT-based horoscope prediction tools were already available in China. But all software suffers from a fundamental paradox. Large language models (LLMs) are just statistical probabilistic predictions, and cannot be considered “truths” to be followed.

AI astrology tool interface in China, running on DeepSeek R1 API.

Clearly, AI is not trustworthy. When given a problem to DeepSeek to solve multiple times, the results are sometimes different. This is the problem of generative intelligence illusion, leading to fabrication.

On the other hand, DeepSeek also seems believable because of vague answers like “You may have bad luck at work, but doing well will lead to promotions and important assignments.” This is a form of the Barnum effect, which describes the cognitive error when people believe that a general description accurately reveals their personal characteristics.

LLMs are designed to be proficient at this behavior. It must provide responses that appear personalized, but can be applied to all users.

The worrying thing is that AI tends to be more accommodating than real “fortune tellers.” Many chatbots are designed to cater to users’ every need. As a result, they can make irresponsible or completely fictional predictions.

“It is not wrong to use AI fortune-telling for daily entertainment. But do not take the predictions as having a scientific basis. You may make wrong decisions such as buying feng shui bracelets or changing your life plans based on AI,” the China Association for Science and Technology warned.

Also, technically, any AI content is based on the highest probability guess, which is not synonymous with truth.

Source: https://znews.vn/dung-deepseek-xem-boi-post1540583.html