OpenAI And DeepSeek – Why I Have No Sympathies For OpenAI

OpenAI did an exclusive interview with the Financial Times, accusing DeepSeek of possibly stealing from them to train their AI. A process known technically as distillation.

The Irony couldn’t be more, because OpenAI too stole data from publishers, without compensating creators and they commercialized it.

DeepSeek a Threat To OpenAI Survival

The threat that Deepseek is posing to the profitability and even the survival of OpenAI is significant. OpenAI and Deepseek are now direct competitors, with more people showing a preference for DeekSeek.

Deepseek is performing at par or better than ChatGPT on most parameters. It is free, and open source and you can run it locally on your computers – using your data.

Deepseek is reported to have been trained at a meager sum of 6 million dollars, compared to the billions that OpenAI has spent in creating its model. Its launch sent a shockwave across the entire AI industry, with Nvidia stock losing about half a trillion dollars in just 24 hours.

Most people aren’t going to pay to use the premium versions of Open AI’s products if they can get it for free from DeepSeek.

OpenAI screwed publishers. They kicked start the whole AI dominance race when they released ChatGPT in 2022. They stole data from every website on the internet – people’s years of work and skills, stolen without compensation.

Google soon started theirs, also stealing data from every publisher. When they finished training their own AI, it didn’t take long for them to stop sending traffic to the same sites they stole from.

Publishers Lost their Source of Income in the AI Race

For millions of people across the globe, the web is where they earn their living. They were doomed.  -from bloggers, content creators, affiliate marketers, Etsy stores, small businesses, etc. Google and OpenAI screwed everyone.

Before now, you create content and put it on their websites, and Google helps get some eyeballs on the content through organic searches. It didn’t matter much that over 90 percent of all web traffic had to pass through Google, as long as Google was sending some traffic back to the sites, everyone was happy.

There isn’t any moral ground for OpenAI to accuse DeepSeek of stealing from them if they too did the same thing to publishers. If anything, Deepseek has the support of a lot more users because they made it free and open source.

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