OpenAI and many companies trained on internet text without permission, creating a loophole where data generated from OpenAI can be uploaded and used by others without violating terms of service.

There's a narrative shift happening where companies like OpenAI are trying to protect themselves from claims of training on their outputs, despite many AI startups having trained on OpenAI outputs without facing bans.

Meta views OpenAI as their biggest competitor, and I respect their aggressive approach to innovation, even if their current AI efforts haven't met expectations.

Many models today, even if they don't train on OpenAI data, still claim to be trained by OpenAI due to the prevalence of OpenAI outputs on the internet that are hard to filter out.

OpenAI has stated that DeepSeek uses their API, and there are claims that it is a distilled model trained on OpenAI's outputs, raising questions about OpenAI's terms of service that prohibit building competitors with outputs from their models.

In a recent exchange with an OpenAI representative, it became clear that no one had previously challenged their practices, highlighting a culture where high-integrity individuals might leave if asked to engage in unethical actions.

The non-disparagement clause at OpenAI, which prevents former employees from criticizing the company, seems to have been an obvious bluff, as it restricts free speech without any real legal backing.

OpenAI is currently in a tricky position because its value is heavily tied to ChatGPT, and there is skepticism about the sustainability of its business model without continuous advancements in AI capabilities.

The issue of fair use in AI involves whether it's acceptable to use the creative works of billions of people to train models that could replace them.