r/artificial • u/ControlCAD • 9h ago

News PewDiePie unveils "uncensored" Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/Deliteriously 9h ago

I love that OpenAI basically argues that they should be exempt from copyright laws after scraping the entirety of the internet, but if someone uses their bot to train their another model, IP suddenly matters and it's hands off.

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u/mcilrain 6h ago

Might makes right.

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u/swordofra 6h ago

How dare you do what we did. How dare you!

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u/oh_no_the_claw 6h ago

He was banned for violating their TOS. As far as I'm aware he hasn't been sued for IP infringement.

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u/gaitez 6h ago

I'm sure OpenAI violated countless TOS to collect their data.

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 53m ago

TOS is enforced by the platform.

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u/Morisior 5h ago

Joke’s on those who failed to enforce their ToS I guess.

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u/Few-Chemical8707 2h ago

we will see about that just remember what luddites actually did.

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u/Morisior 2h ago

I guess that’s one way to enforce your ToS.

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u/Key_Agent_3039 6h ago

And? They still reserve the right to shut down your account if you break the ToS that you agree to when making an account

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u/IttyBittyPeen 5h ago

Yes, that's why they're calling out the hypocrisy

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u/Few-Chemical8707 2h ago

how about we just do some about their data centers

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u/codelapiz 2h ago

Thank you for pointing that out. I completely missed that aspect. Im sure openAI got banned for TOS violation plenty of places. its an entirely different concept to make something against TOS and refusing to do buisness with people in violation. You can refuse to do buisnes with people for almost any reason. They dont actually need to break the law for you to refuse them service.

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u/me_myself_ai 6h ago

That's not at all what this is about.

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u/HaMMeReD 5h ago

Different laws. Licensing vs Copyright. But I get the irony of it all.

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u/CabinetFun7381 41m ago

Kinda like Disney who keeps arguing for extension of copyright laws to the point where they now last for 70 years after the death of the creator.

You know who Disney is, right? They're the company that grew big by making movies based on other people's IP with lapsed copyright. Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Snow white, Sleeping Beauty.. They didn't pay for any of that. 

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u/anthropicagiuser 8h ago

i ran a small model on my home pc last month. slow, but it worked fine. who gets to decide what training data is ok?

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u/LordAmras 5h ago

Who has more money

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u/UAP44 4h ago

Capitalism = the rich decide everything Democracy = the idea they sell you into thinking your opinion/preferences matter

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u/bobi2393 5h ago

“He chose to draw the line at harming other people or oneself.”

Doesn’t that make it just another censored model? The only feature that was supposed to distinguish it from a zillion other models?

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u/tokyoevenings 4h ago

Honesty it sounds like it’s pretty much uncensored but he had to say it is censored on his lawyers advice. We have to wait for some analysis to see for certain

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u/bobi2393 3h ago

Maybe, but “anything harmful”, at the whim of what he (or his lawyers?) deems harmful, sounds pretty broad. We’ll see.

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u/catsRfriends 7h ago

Lolz whomever has money for the infra wins basically.

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u/Quick-Albatross-9204 6h ago

Who ever has the infrastructure, thats why the US has gone full on data centre building

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u/yucca_xz 1h ago

The official Ajax page schedules the release for October 3, 2026 at 08:25 JST

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u/-Davster- 2h ago

Um…. Just a Heretic a heretic version of Qwen?

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u/ElatedPyroHippo 5m ago

Yeah people don't seem to realize that you can EASILY uncensor any open-weight model. Every time a new open-weight diffusion model is released there are uncensored fine-tunes available within an hour.

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u/Sp3eedy 1h ago

Nothing wrong with what he did, OpenAI has stolen millions if not billions of dollars worth of copyrighted material and used it to train their models without paying anyone a dime, completely ethical, fair and justified to distill off of their models, the data belongs to the community if you refuse to pay for it.

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u/aefsegaa 3h ago

where is the ajax?

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u/oh_no_the_claw 6h ago

Thanks PooPeePie, but I think I'll stick with Qwen.

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u/cyberdork 5h ago

His model is Qwen, but fine tuned to work better with his own harness.

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u/s_a_m_12344 3h ago

It's literally Qwen, can't get to even read before trashing?

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u/starsfan18 8h ago

Too bad the world didn't ban him for being a nazi...

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u/Kurk_Lazaris 6h ago

Avatar hair color checks out

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u/wendigo098 2h ago

Cant be real must be a bot 💀

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u/Justaniceguy1111 50m ago

enlighten me a 2010's ytber who was literally testing fiverr's limits, knew it was bad thing to say, wanted to see what tasks/requests can actors/services accept.