Column: OpenAI accuses China of stealing its content, the same accusation that authors have made against OpenAI
The unveiling Monday of a Chinese-made AI bot that seems cheaper, more efficient and in some ways more accurate than American-grown versions certainly kicked up a fuss in the AI space. At some level, “OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers” that it now charges DeepSeek with, observes AI critic Gary Marcus. Hollywood Inc. Why Chinese AI company DeepSeek is spooking investors on U.S. tech U.S. tech stocks, including Nvidia, Oracle and Broadcom, plummeted Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek said it created an AI system that can compete against chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT at much lower costs. “America’s most powerful tech companies sat back and built bigger, messier models powered by sprawling data centers and billions of dollars of NVIDIA GPUs, a bacchanalia of spending that strains our energy grid and depletes our water reserves,” writes AI critic Ed Zitron, “without, it appears, much consideration of whether an alternative was possible.” They had no incentive to seek out a cheaper or more efficient path to development because the money and energy and chips were so abundant. It’s proper to note, furthermore, that DeepSeek hasn’t solved the fundamental obstacle to a wide rollout of AI tools in industry experienced by OpenAI and other development firms: the tools’ tendency to make mistakes — “hallucinations,” as they’re known in the field — that occur at a rate that destroys their reliability.
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