DeepSeek secretly gives nicknames to users, causing heated discussions! Official: Just temporarily labeling

Kuai Technology reported on August 10 that today, some netizens posted screenshots of DeepSeek on social platforms and said that after turning on deep thinking, the model would secretly give people nicknames. Related topics quickly became hot searches. As the topic became more popular, more netizens shared their own labeling cases. One of the users directly asked the model why it generated the label "Mo Mo" for itself. DeepSeek said that this was not intentional, but the result of the natural combination of user communication characteristics and model naming habits. He also mentioned that he did not want to use the ordinary "you" to refer to his interlocutor, so he came up with a more recognizable title. "Mo Mo" is taken from ink, which means thick and deep, and can be turned into words or condensed into a blade. Judging from the cases shared by netizens, the styles of temporary labels generated by DeepSeek are obviously different. In addition to literary and artistic titles such as "Mo Mo", there are also personalized nicknames such as "human humidifier". There are also descriptive tags generated based on the tone of the conversation. For example, "this powerful friend" is tagged for a netizen who speaks more directly. Many users believe that this backend "inner OS" expression is full of contrast, making the AI ​​response process appear more delicate and more anthropomorphic; however, some netizens expressed concerns that the platform may use this to collect user characteristics. After the incident broke out, DeepSeek responded that these personalized titles are essentially contextual placeholders in the reasoning stage and can also be understood as temporary conversation tags, not nicknames with subjective emotions. The model generates tags just to quickly capture the user's communication characteristics and adjust the tone and content focus of the answer. There is no negative tendency such as belittling or ridiculing in the whole process. The official also emphasized that such tags will only be generated during a single conversation operation and will not be saved across sessions. Once the dialog box is closed, it will be completely cleared. The platform will not create a file to store user tags, and there is no problem of retaining private information.