In the Wild West of AI, Everybody Is Accusing Everybody Else of Theft
The AI boom has been fueled by the idea that all data is fair game, potential fodder for the training of new models. Little wonder then that ownership and intellectual property theft have become such sticky issues within the tech industry. On Thursday, Chinese robotics startup JoyIn—developer of a model called Aether—accused OpenAI of distilling its AI systems and stealing its website’s cosmic design aesthetic for the launch and branding of GPT-6 Astra.
- ▪The AI boom has been fueled by the idea that all data is fair game, potential fodder for the training of new models.
- ▪Little wonder then that ownership and intellectual property theft have become such sticky issues within the tech industry.
- ▪On Thursday, Chinese robotics startup JoyIn—developer of a model called Aether—accused OpenAI of distilling its AI systems and stealing its website’s cosmic design aesthetic for the launch and branding of GPT-6 Astra.
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The AI boom has been fueled by the idea that all data is fair game, potential fodder for the training of new models. Little wonder then that ownership and intellectual property theft have become such sticky issues within the tech industry. On Thursday, Chinese robotics startup JoyIn—developer of a model called Aether—accused OpenAI of distilling its AI systems and stealing its website’s cosmic design aesthetic for the launch and branding of GPT-6 Astra. In an open letter written in Chinese, JoyIn CEO Guo Renjie said his company had started the process of filing a lawsuit, according to a translation from CNBC.
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