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Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress
If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
I couldn’t help thinking of him this week while watching OpenAI’s Sam Altman wet his pants about the fact that a Chinese hedge fund might have made unauthorised use of his own chatbot models, including ChatGPT, to train its new little side project. But as I say, that’s Sam’s analogy – anyone who’s ever skimmed over his recommended books list knows he’s very much rooted in the business history section of the airport bookshop, and consequently shouldn’t be relied upon to produce a single comparison that isn’t with either the Third Reich or ancient Rome. Far from being some heroic form of risk-taking done without a single handout, theirs is the capitalism of the school bake sale – someone else buys all the ingredients and does most of the cooking, and the kids then claim they have turned a profit for the good of humanity.
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