OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, alleges that Chinese AI company DeepSeek used OpenAI's data to train its competing models, potentially violating OpenAI's terms of service. Microsoft security researchers detected suspicious data exfiltration from OpenAI accounts linked to DeepSeek. OpenAI claims evidence of 'distillation,' a technique where smaller models are trained using data from larger ones, suggesting DeepSeek leveraged OpenAI's expensive GPT-4 training data. While OpenAI acknowledges its own past use of web data without explicit consent, it emphasizes the need to protect its intellectual property and calls for collaboration with the US government to safeguard advanced AI technology.
OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, claims to have found evidence suggesting that Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data to train its own competing models.that OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether Chinese AI rival DeepSeek has violated the terms of service by using OpenAI’s API to integrate its AI models into DeepSeek’s own offerings.
OpenAI has stated that it found evidence linking DeepSeek to the use of distillation, a technique developers employ to train AI models by extracting data from larger, more capable ones. This method allows for the efficient training of smaller models at a fraction of the cost OpenAI spent to train its GPT-4 model, which exceeded $100 million.
The irony of the situation has not gone unnoticed, as OpenAI itself made significant advancements with its GPT model by ingesting vast amounts of web-based content without explicit consent. David Sacks, the artificial intelligence czar under President Donald Trump, acknowledged the possibility of IP theft, stating, “There’s substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled knowledge out of OpenAI models and I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about this.
In a statement to Bloomberg, OpenAI emphasized the constant efforts by China-based companies and others to distill models from leading US AI companies. As a leading builder of AI, OpenAI engages in countermeasures to protect its intellectual property, including a careful process for determining which frontier capabilities to include in released models.
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