White House AI czar David Sacks says, “There’s substantial evidence that DeepSeek distilled knowledge from OpenAI models.”
In a rapidly unfolding dispute, OpenAI is accusing Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of using its proprietary models’ outputs to train a competing chatbot, despite OpenAI itself having been sued for alleged copyright infringement and data misuse on multiple occasions. According to the Financial Times, OpenAI believes DeepSeek may have “distilled” knowledge from ChatGPT, potentially violating the company’s terms of service.
It is not surprising to me that DeepSeek supposedly would be doing the same.”The controversy comes shortly after DeepSeek shook the global AI industry by introducing a model requiring significantly fewer resources than those deployed by major Silicon Valley firms. Its open-source AI model, R1, was announced last week with claims of mimicking human reasoning and matching or exceeding leading models on various industry benchmarks.
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