OpenAI accuses Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of improperly using its models to train its own image generator, DeepSeek. OpenAI claims to have 'some evidence' that DeepSeek engaged in 'distillation,' a method of replicating AI models by using their output for training. Microsoft, which holds a 49% stake in OpenAI, discovered last fall that individuals linked to DeepSeek had extracted a significant amount of data via OpenAI's API. This news has sparked controversy, with some pointing out the irony of OpenAI accusing DeepSeek of practices similar to those OpenAI itself has been accused of.
The Sam Altman-led company, which itself harvested large amounts of data from copyright holders without permission, says it has “some evidence” that DeepSeek used the output of OpenAI’s models to train its own in a method known as “distillation.”that Microsoft’s security researchers — Microsoft has a 49 percent stake in OpenAI — noticed last fall that actors linked to DeepSeek exfiltrated a large amount of data using OpenAI’s application programming interface .
“We know that groups in the People’s Republic of China are actively working to use methods, including what’s known as distillation, to replicate advanced U.S. A.I. models,” OpenAI spokeswoman Liz Bourgeois “We are aware of and reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled our models, and will share information as we know more. We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology and will continue working closely with the U.S. government to protect the most capable models being built here.”
DeepSeek has sent shock waves through the tech world this week after the chatbot surged to the top of the App Store charts. Its makers claim that it was built on a relatively small budget of $6 million. The U.S. bans sales of Nvidia chips to China and it was assumed that because of this, start-ups in China were years behind the U.S. However, the release ofThe news that DeepSeek may have stolen OpenAI’s IP is music to the ears of some who believe that the company is reaping what it has sown.
“It is, as many have already pointed out, incredibly ironic that OpenAI, a company that has been obtaining large amounts of data from all of humankind largely in an ‘unauthorized manner,’ and, in some cases, in violation of the terms of service of those from whom they have been taking from, is now complaining about the very practices by which it has built its company,”Chinese AI Company DeepSeek Releases Image...
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