Since Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its cost-effective models, the company has been accused of data theft through a practice that is common across the industry.

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

The Medium post goes over various flavors of distillation, including response-based distillation, feature-based distillation and relation-based distillation. It also covers two fundamentally different modes of distillation – off-line and online distillation.

DeepSeek’s success learning from bigger AI models raises questions about the billions being spent on the most advanced technology.

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

OpenAI claims to have found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek secretly used data produced by OpenAI’s technology to improve their own AI models, according to the Financial Times. If true, DeepSeek would be in violation of OpenAI’s terms of service. In a statement, the company said it is actively investigating.

What I can say is that it's a little rich for OpenAI to suddenly be so very publicly concerned about the sanctity of proprietary data. Collectively, the contributions from copyrighted sources are significant enough that OpenAI has said it would be "impossible" to build its large-language models without them.

David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto tsar in an interview with Fox on Tuesday said, “There's substantial evidence” that Deepseek “distilled knowledge out of OpenAI's models”. Distillation is the process where smaller models obtain better ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman downplayed the significance of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model released by Chinese startup DeepSeek on Thursday, saying it did a “couple of nice things” but has been

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation. It mandates the detention and potential deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who are accused of theft and violent crimes before they've actually been convicted.

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