OpenAI has reported indications of a potential intellectual property theft regarding its advanced AI models, specifically citing a Chinese group, DeepSeek, possibly using 'distillation' to replicate these models. While distillation is a legitimate technique for developing smaller AI models by leveraging outputs from larger ones, OpenAI's terms restrict such usage for competitive purposes. The AI community, including figures like David Sacks, express concerns about potential theft and indicate that AI companies might implement stronger measures against distillation to protect their innovations and intellectual property.
Distillation is a common technique developers use to train smaller AI models to replicate the performance of larger, more complex models by training the smaller models on the output of the larger models.
We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology and will continue working closely with the U.S. government to protect the most capable models being built here.
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.
I think one of the things you're going to see over the next few months is our leading AI companies taking steps to try and prevent distillation.
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