OpenAI says DeepSeek used its models illegally, and it has evidence to prove it, new report claims

Date:
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:10:22 +0000

Description:
New report claims OpenAI has evidence of DeepSeek breaking its user agreement by distilling its models.

FULL STORY

According to a new article by the Financial Times , OpenAI claims to have evidence that DeepSeek , the Chinese startup that has thrown the US tech
market into financial turmoil, used the company's proprietary models to train its own open-source LLM, called R1. This would represent a potential breach
of intellectual property, as it goes against the OpenAI terms of service agreement.

In the article the FT writes that a source at OpenAI claims it has evidence
of distillation occurring, which is a technique used by developers to
leapfrog on the work done by larger models to achieve similar results at a
much lower cost.

The OpenAI terms of service clearly state that users cannot copy any of its service or use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI. David
Sacks, the Whitehouse crypto and AI czar said in an interview on Fox that
there is substantial evidence of distillation occurring from DeepSeek.

OpenAI statement

Speaking to TechRadar an OpenAI spokesperson said: "We know PRC based
companies and others are constantly trying to distill the models of leading US AI companies. As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures
to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier
capabilities to include in released models, and believe as we go forward that it is critically important that we are working closely with the U.S.
government to best protect the most capable models from efforts by
adversaries and competitors to take US technology.

OpenAI tells us it has observed and investigated attempts to distill its
models and has responded through banning the accounts in question and
revoking access.

Security concerns

Meanwhile security concerns still seem to be dogging DeepSeek, particularly around the security of user data, exactly what data is being collected, and where it is storing it.

If you or your company has issues with data being stored in China, Perplexity
, the AI search engine, is now offering its Pro users access to DeepSeek
using data that is only stored on servers in the US.

New registrations for DeepSeek are still temporarily paused, due to
large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services. For the latest news on this big breaking story, see the our DeepSeek live blog .

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