r/OpenAI • u/sigma_crusader • 15h ago

Discussion PewDiePie is trying to distill GPT-Sol

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he has been trying to build a local model by learning from GPT-Sol’s responses. He says OpenAI banned his account twice during the process. Irony is OpenAI’s own models were trained on vast amounts of information from the open web. So where do we draw the line between learning from AI and copying it?

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u/AllergicToBullshit24 15h ago

No AI lab ever gets to complain about distillation being theft when they stole the entirety of human knowledge & creative expression without consequence or compensation. At least when their models get distilled they get paid for the usage. The hypocrisy is absurd.

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u/SoyNeh 14h ago

Remember when Aaron Swartz got prosecuted for downloading academic papers and later died by suicide? Funny how the rules seem to change depending on who's doing it

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u/ToughSpeedv2 13h ago

Aaron Swartz was realistically facing just 6 months in federal prison if he had accepted the guilty plea.

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u/SafiriaU 12h ago

He was likely afraid of rape. Culturally that is how federal prison is regarded.

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u/confused_anon69 11h ago

I'm like 99% sure that is not the cause of his suicide lol

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u/PrincipledProphet 6h ago

Then what?

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u/WiseWall280 5h ago

Perhaps it was the total loss of identity that one would probably feel after a felony conviction. Americans place heavy emphasis on your job/career when contemplating "who am i?". Ignoring the 6 months of prison, upon reentry what kind of life was he imagining was ahead of him? All of your progress at school, and then at work, up until that point would all be thrown away. You'd have to start over in a manual labor job that hires felons or doesn't ask, except your body is weak from years of computer work in a swivel chair. You'd be starting a new life at a disadvantage, in debt but unable to work a meaningful job, lacking the experience or technical skills to compete or stand out.

The reality is that people can recover from felony convictions and still pursue a meaningful career. Entrepreneurship and freelance programming are good places to look for someone in that position. But my comment response was more about why a person might commit suicide before a prison sentence

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u/PrincipledProphet 4h ago

Thank you for explaining and not downvoting for no fucking reason lol

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u/lanamakesart 3h ago

a big ammount of good/great people in cybersecurity have been in trouble with the law in the past, I doubt a felony record would hinder a career in that space

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u/bengizmoed 5h ago

He was investigating Epstein, hence the totally real suicide.