[nmfisher]

I'm not sure how deep that moat is. As soon as you open up the API, anyone can distil ChatGPT (or at least, some smaller part of it) by fine-tuning another model on its outputs[0].

I'm guessing that this is the #1 fear for people inside OpenAI have right now.

[0] For the record, I have zero problem with this.

[letitgo12345]

1. ToS make it hard for a commercial entity to do so. So some third parties would have to collect the data first

2. You won't be able to get the hundreds of millions or more interactions that OAI will have (both due to cost of API as well as it being not easy to figure out a good way to generate that many queries for a good multiturn conversaton). Maybe you can make up for it by querying smartly. We don't know if we can right now.