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by refulgentis 337 days ago
Isn't that today? (or, perhaps more pedantically, yesterday and today and tomorrow?)
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I'm pretty sure I've seen that openai was complaining about one of their customers doing exactly that a couple of years ago. Yes, here https://aibusiness.com/nlp/tiktok-parent-allegedly-used-open...
Cosign, happens all the time in my experience, and off the top of my head easily undisputable evidence thats Google-able: early open models on ChatGPT transcripts, Google on ChatGPT transcripts, ByteDance on OpenAI, DeepSeek on OpenAI
... and tomorrow, and the next day.

It never ends. There's no moat. One day your at-home GPU will unwind an entire hyperscaler's worth of expertise.

Does the capital outlay get them anything at all apart from a temporary lead?

While you couldn't download a car, your product use might train a low-cost competitor.