ByteDance Secretly Used OpenAI Tech to Build Rival Model, Documents Show
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ByteDance has secretly used OpenAI's tech to develop Project Seed, their own large language model, in violation of OpenAI's terms of service
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Microsoft provides ByteDance's OpenAI API access; they also prohibit using it to develop competing models
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Internal ByteDance documents confirm reliance on OpenAI API for nearly every phase of Project Seed's development
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Employees discuss "whitewashing" evidence by removing sensitive information
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Project Seed employees regularly hit max API access limits due to extensive misuse