Stefan Mileschin

Developed its own competing large language model (LLM)

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has been accused of using OpenAI's technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM).

The use of the LLM directly violates OpenAI's terms of service, which states that its model output can't be used 'to develop any artificial intelligence models that compete with its products and services.'

The Verge has found internal ByteDance documents showing that the OpenAI API has been relied on to develop its foundational LLM, codenamed Project Seed, during nearly every development phase, including for training and evaluating the model.

Employees involved are well aware of the implications; I've seen conversations on Lark, ByteDance's internal communication platform for employees, about how to "whitewash" the evidence through "data desensitisation."

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/58124-b...-openai-s-tech