Sam Altman-directed OpenAI suspended Tic Tac-parent ByteDance for using GPT to train his own competing AI model to create the “ChatGPT of China”.
What happened: ByteDance admitted to using OpenAI’s GPT to train a competing AI model in China, violating the developer’s license Microsoft Corp. MSFT as well as OpenAI, reported The edge.
This comes after ByteDance publicly admitted to using an AI model trained by GPT in non-Chinese markets. “ByteDance is licensed by Microsoft to use GPT APIs,” said ByteDance spokesperson Jodi Seth.
“We use GPT to power products and features in non-Chinese markets, but use our model that we developed to power Doubao, which is only available in China,” added Seth.
TikTok’s “For You” algorithmic feed has been hugely successful. His parent ByteDance had claimed that it offers an even “more powerful” model than Alphabet Inc. GOOG GOOGLE Google Geminiwhich narrowly beat GPT-4.
“Uncertain about GPT-5, but an ultra-powerful model (more powerful than Gemini) should arrive at any time,” said Quanquan Gudirector of AI research at ByteDance.
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This is also a violation of Microsoft and OpenAI’s developer licenses, which specifically prohibit customers from doing what ByteDance did. OpenAI contains a clause that prevents licensees from using GPT output “to develop artificial intelligence models that compete with our products and services.”
“Although ByteDance’s use of our API is minimal, we have suspended their account while we further investigate. If we discover that their use does not comply with these policies, we will ask them to make the necessary changes or terminate their account”, Niko, spokesperson for OpenAI. said Felix.
Why is this important: ByteDance using another AI model to build its own could worsen the hallucinations problem that affects these models.
Currently, these AI models rely on the training data provided to them instead of generating their own data. Training another AI on another AI’s output could reduce quality and also lead to even more fake production.
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