Yes. They bounced millions of queries off of ChatGPT to teach/form/train their DeepSeek model. This bot-like querying was the "distillation."

They definitely didn't. They demonstrated their stuff long before OAI and the models were nothing like each other.

SirMaster 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would OpenAI allow someone to do that?

	▲	MadnessASAP an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They didn't, but how do you stop it? Presuming the scale that OpenAI is running at?