They’re claiming that DeepSeek used their API for distillation, and to be fair DeepSeek hasn’t denied this. Whether they did or not really doesn’t matter in my opinion. Watching OpenAI complain that a company did to them precisely what they themselves have been doing to everyone else is the hilarious part here. And amusingly, if they tried to go after DeepSeek legally in the US then they’d create precedent for everyone whose content they scraped to go after them.
They’re claiming that DeepSeek used their API for distillation, and to be fair DeepSeek hasn’t denied this. Whether they did or not really doesn’t matter in my opinion. Watching OpenAI complain that a company did to them precisely what they themselves have been doing to everyone else is the hilarious part here. And amusingly, if they tried to go after DeepSeek legally in the US then they’d create precedent for everyone whose content they scraped to go after them.