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TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has been secretly using OpenAI's technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM). "This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the AI world," writes The Verge's Alex Heath. "It's also in direct violation of OpenAI's terms of service, whi...

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has been secretly using OpenAI’s technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM). “This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the AI world,” writes The Verge’s Alex Heath. “It’s also in direct violation of OpenAI’s terms of service, which state that its model output can’t be used ‘to develop any artificial intelligence models that compete with our products and services.’”

  • Mahlzeit@feddit.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    run counter to public interest

    It’s anticompetitive. That’s against the public interest on its face. The only justification I can think of is, if it were possible to extract some “secret sauce”, that OpenAI spent money to develop. Same logic as with patents: The public wants progress, so it needs to be possible to monetize R&D investment. I doubt if that’s the case, though.