Subj : OpenAI says DeepSeek used its models illegally, and it has eviden
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Jan 29 2025 13:15:07

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.

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report claims OpenAI has detected evidence of distillation by DeepSeek Move 
represents a potential breach of intellectual property Whitehouse AI czar 
weighs-in on the subject 

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 . You may also like 
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pitted it against ChatGPT to see which is best



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/openai-says-deepse
ek-used-its-models-illegally-and-it-has-evidence-to-prove-it-new-report-claims


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