After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people’s work — and getting sued for copyright infringement left and right — OpenAI is sobbing that the buzzy Chinese AI startup DeepSeek did the same thing on its AI that it built on all that pilfered content. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI is accusing the app of using its proprietary models to train its own ChatGPT competitor. The company claimed that it had “some evidence” of DeepSeek using the output of OpenAI’s models to train its own, a technique called “distillation,” that it says may have breached its terms of service. The news comes after DeepSeek flipped the AI industry on its head, wiping out over $1 trillion worth of market capitalization in a single day with an advanced model that’s much less resource-intensive than anything cooked up by Silicon Valley. As the main purveyor of AI computing infrastructure, chipmaker Nvidia broke its own record for the biggest single-day loss of any company in history. Now that DeepSeek has come for OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker is suddenly crying foul, whining that the upstart lab did exactly what it did to human creatives: vacuumed up its work and used it to build a competing product. “The issue is when you [take it out of the platform and] are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes,” a source close to OpenAI told the FT. It’s hard not to see the development as the peak of hypocrisy. OpenAI has a…OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job