ByteDance, the brains behind the popular short-form video platform TikTok, has affirmed its commitment to ethical standards and policies while utilizing OpenAI models. This comes in response to allegations that ByteDance was tapping into OpenAI’s data to develop its own models, creating a potential rival to Chat GPT.
In a statement on the South China Morning Post website, ByteDance admitted that its team had indeed employed OpenAI’s model techniques to craft an extensive language model. However, they clarified that this was merely a trial version and had never been released to the public.
Media reports had previously suggested that ByteDance was exploiting its access license to OpenAI models to fashion a competitor to Chat GPT. In light of these claims, OpenAI took action, announcing the suspension of ByteDance’s license pending measures demonstrating adherence to OpenAI’s usage terms and standards. Failure to comply would result in a permanent account ban.
ByteDance underscored in its statement that all efforts to use OpenAI models were halted entirely in April of the previous year. This decision followed ByteDance’s implementation of policies prohibiting employees from leveraging Chat GPT to develop products that could compete with OpenAI in the future.
The Chinese company clarified that its teams presently use APIs from OpenAI and other industry players but strictly for limited purposes, such as evaluation and testing to compare model performance.
Closing their statement, ByteDance confirmed their possession of a valid license to continue using OpenAI’s API, reiterating their ongoing commitment to uphold all standards and terms of use set by the American company.
ByteDance leverages OpenAI’s intelligent models through its account on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Microsoft, as OpenAI’s principal partner, has yet to issue an official response to these developments, despite its pivotal role in providing the technical capabilities for training OpenAI’s intelligent models and investing over $10 billion in the AI pioneer since 2019.
It’s worth noting that OpenAI has not extended licensing opportunities to companies and businesses in China for the use of its artificial intelligence models up to the present moment.
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