[tickerticker]

Yes. They bounced millions of queries off of ChatGPT to teach/form/train their DeepSeek model. This bot-like querying was the "distillation."

[orbital-decay]

They definitely didn't. They demonstrated their stuff long before OAI and the models were nothing like each other.

[SirMaster]

Why would OpenAI allow someone to do that?

[qcnguy]

They don't anymore. They introduced ID verification shortly after, but it's hard to stop completely while also scaling fast.

[MadnessASAP]

They didn't, but how do you stop it? Presuming the scale that OpenAI is running at?