OpenAI and the White House have accused DeepSeek of using ChatGPT to inexpensively train its new chatbot.
- Experts in tech law state OpenAI has little recourse under copyright and agreement law.
- OpenAI's terms of usage might use however are mainly unenforceable, they say.
This week, OpenAI and the White House accused DeepSeek of something similar to theft.

In a flurry of press declarations, they said the Chinese upstart had actually bombarded OpenAI's chatbots with questions and hoovered up the resulting data trove to quickly and inexpensively train a model that's now almost as good.

The Trump administration's leading AI czar stated this training process, called "distilling," totaled up to intellectual home theft. OpenAI, meanwhile, informed Business Insider and other outlets that it's investigating whether "DeepSeek might have wrongly distilled our designs."

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