Did China’s DeepSeek Violate OpenAI’s Legal Rights?

_{“Distillation” technology may have allowed DeepSeek to piggy-back on ChatGPT to capture market share} _{Richard W. Stevens
February 5, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Law}

The complex legal wrangle continues but, in general, I would advise against treating AI products as legally equivalent to human products.