I agree with OpenAI: You shouldn’t use other peoples’ work without permission

Maybe DeepSeek did distill OpenAI’s models to train its own, and maybe that is a violation of the terms of service OpenAI has published. But “extracting information and putting it to use” feels like a fair description of what DeepSeek has done here. If DeepSeek’s work truly weren’t possible without the work that OpenAI had already done, perhaps DeepSeek should think about compensating OpenAI in some way?

This kind of hypocrisy makes it difficult for me to muster much…