Yes it is. Although I personally have far less moral objections to it.
To elaborate:
OpenAI scraped data without permission, and then makes money from it.
Deepseek then used that data (even paid openai for it), trained a model on that data, and then releases that model for anyone to use.
While it’s still making use of “stolen data” (that’s a whole semantics discussion I won’t get into right now), I find it far more noble than the former.
Yes it is. Although I personally have far less moral objections to it.
To elaborate:
OpenAI scraped data without permission, and then makes money from it.
Deepseek then used that data (even paid openai for it), trained a model on that data, and then releases that model for anyone to use.
While it’s still making use of “stolen data” (that’s a whole semantics discussion I won’t get into right now), I find it far more noble than the former.
So it’s more like Deepseek bought stolen items from the shady OpenAI pawnshop.
And then handed it out for free, yes. Although I’m sure they’re making money out of it as well - obviously they’re not saints.