OpenAI thinks DeepSeek may have used its AI outputs inappropriately, highlighting ongoing disputes over copyright, fair use, and training data.

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.

It’s impossible to look at the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s new AI model without comparing it against OpenAI, the dominant American rival.DeepSeek has touted its latest AI model,