OpenAI thinks DeepSeek may have used its AI outputs inappropriately, highlighting ongoing disputes over copyright, fair use, and training data.

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work and getting sued for copyright infringement left and right, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. As the Financial Times reports,

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.

OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.

Sam Altman’s company expressed concern Wednesday that DeepSeek’s model had improperly used components of OpenAI’s model.

New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz says it has found a trove of sensitive data from the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek inadvertently exposed to the open internet.