
The Silicon Valley-based company saidWednesday it has seen various attempts by China-based entities to exfiltrate large volumes of data from its AI tools, likely to train their own models in a technical process called distillation.
OpenAI said it has banned the accounts it suspected of distilling its models and has worked with Microsoft to identify the actors behind the attempts. DeepSeek is among those that OpenAI is looking into, according to a person familiar with the matter.
This story is from the January 30, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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