Well I think DeepSeek releasing it open source and on an MIT license will rally the big talent. The open sourcing of a new technology has always driven progress in the past.
The last paragraph too is where OpenAi seems to be focusing their efforts..
> we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models ..
> ... we are working closely with the US government to best protect the most capable models from efforts by adversaries and competitors to take US technology.
So they'll go for getting DeepSeek banned like TikTok was now that a precedent has been set ?
Also still an unresolved issue is how they will ever comply with a deletion request, should any model output personal data of someone. They are heavily in a gray area, with regards to what should be allowed. If anything, they should really shut up now.
But DeepSeek didn't use that presumably (since it's secret). They definitely can't argue that using copyrighted material for training is fine, but using output from other commercial models isn't. That's too inconsistent.
IANAL but it seems to me that OpenAI wouldn’t be able to claim their outputs are IP since they are AI-generated. It may be against their TOS, meaning OpenAI could refuse to provide service to DeepSeek in the future, but they can’t really sue them.
[1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...
Well, they can argue that, if they're fine with being hypocrites.
They're hypocrites.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinkeller_deepseek-privacy-...
I'm not going to take a side on whether there is or not.
But, it does sound reminiscent of the reasons used to ban Tik-tok.
TikTok is a consumption tool, DS is a productive one. They aren't the same.
Can't really ban what can be downloaded for free and hosted by anyone. There are many providers hosting the ~700B parameter version that aren't CCP aligned.
People made shirts with printouts of the code to RSA under the heading "this shirt is a munition." Apparently such shirts are still for sale, even though they are not classified as munitions anymore.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Like music? They banned napster
And this analogy isn't particularly good. Napster was the server, not the product. Whether you got XYZ from Napster or wherever else doesn't matter, because its the product that you are after, not the way to get the product.
The UAE (where I live, happily, and by choice), which desperately wants to be the center of the world in AI and is spending vast time and treasure to make it happen (they've even got their own excellent, government-funded foundation model), would _love_ this. Any attempt to ban DeepSeek in the US would be the most gigantic self-own. Combine that with no income tax, a fantastic standard of living, and a willingness to very easily give out visas to smart people from anywhere in the world, and I have to imagine it is one of several countries desperate for the US to do something so utterly stupid.
everything is already too late.
The US should only ban DeepSeek (and other Chinese companies) from accessing US frontier models.
The US should only ban DeepSeek (and other Chinese companies) from accessing US frontier models designed and trained by Chinese Americans.
fixed for you.
Source:
> If not sold within a year, the law would make it illegal for web-hosting services to support TikTok, and it would force Google and Apple to remove TikTok from app stores — rendering the app unusable with time.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246663779/biden-ban-tiktok-u...
