DeepSeek’s Distillation Tactics in AI Pose Threat to US Competitors

DeepSeek, the Chinese rival to OpenAI, has sparked national security concerns as it employs contentious distillation techniques to replicate cutting-edge US AI models. OpenAI raised alarm bells by asserting that DeepSeek is capitalizing on these methodologies to drive innovations in its breakthrough R1 chatbot. Concerns over the protection of intellectual property loom large as DeepSeek allegedly skirts OpenAI’s protocols with obfuscated tactics to extract data clandestinely. The extent of DeepSeek’s surreptitious maneuvers has put US policymakers on high alert as they probe into the potential consequences of allowing unrestricted access to such advances. Particularly alarming is DeepSeek’s usage of distillation…