<p>After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work and getting sued for copyright infringement left and right, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI accused 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," potentially breaching 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 […]</p>