OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has accused the Chinese neural network DeepSeek of illegally using its data.
The company claimed that DeepSeek violated intellectual property policies by employing a method known as “distillation,” which allows training models using the outputs of more powerful neural networks.
This technology helps achieve similar results with fewer resources. Although distillation is a widely accepted practice in the industry, OpenAI prohibits its use for creating competing models. A company representative noted that the issue arises when this method is applied to develop a proprietary model, which they consider a violation.
