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I hope DeepSeek destroys OpenAI

I hope DeepSeek destroys OpenAI

The American AI content thieves are whining that China's DeepSeek stole their work. Oh, poor babies! Whatever will you do now? 😂

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Sometimes karma is a bitch, isn’t it? Remember when many writers and artists across the Internet complained that OpenAI and the other American AI companies were stealing their work to train their models? None of the AI companies gave a damn, and they kept scraping the Internet anyway.

Now the thieves at OpenAI are complaining that China’s new DeepSeek allegedly stole from them:

OpenAI says that the viral Chinese AI app DeepSeek may have siphoned off massive amounts of data to build its models.

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.”

Bloomberg reports 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 (API).

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