DeepSeek price hike analyzed: deliberate move to curb low-quality content
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-17
Analyzing DeepSeek's increase in cache hit prices, the author argues it wasn't a pricing error but a deliberate strategy by the research lab to limit the generation of low-quality content ('slop') enabled by nearly free tokens.
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