Perhaps Deepseek distilled the models of Openai to train his own, and perhaps it is a violation of the conditions of use of Openai. But “extract information and put it to use” looks like a good description of what Deepseek did here. If the work of Deepseek was really not possible without the work that Optai had already done, perhaps Deepseek should think of compensating Openai in one way or another?
This kind of hypocrisy makes me difficult to bring together a lot of sympathy for an AI industry which has treated the shift in the work of other humans as a completely legal and necessary sacrifice, a crime without victim which offers so important advantages and Obvious that it was not even worth having a conversation on this subject beforehand.
A final irony in Andreessen Horowitz’s commentary: there is a little relaxation on the impact of a copyright violation decision on competition. The fact of having to obtain a license on the works protected by copyright “would have the benefit of the largest technological companies – those with the deepest and the greatest incentive to keep the AI models closed to competition “.
“A company of several billion dollars could be able to allow itself to concede to training data protected by copyright, but smaller and more agile startups will be completely excluded from the development race,” continues the commentary . “The result will be much less competition, much less innovation and most likely the loss of position of the United States as a leader in the global development of AI.”
Part of the agita of the industry about Deepseek is probably wrapped in the last piece of this declaration – that a Chinese company apparently beat an American company at the forefront of something. Andreessen himself described the Deepseek model as a “Spoutnik moment” for the AI company, which implies that American companies must catch up or risk being left behind. But whatever geography, it seems that OpenAi wants to benefit from unlimited access to others work while restricting similar access to his own work.
Good luck with that!
