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> Microsoft’s security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount of data using the OpenAI
by muglug 2y ago
> Microsoft’s security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount of data using the OpenAI application programming interface, or API, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is confidential.
> Such activity could violate OpenAI’s terms of service or could indicate the group acted to remove OpenAI’s restrictions on how much data they could obtain
What do we think this means in practice?
"Exfiltrating data" makes it sound like they were taking private chat logs, but I imagine that would be a much bigger deal. I'm assuming it's just using multiple free OpenAI accounts across a bunch of different IP addresses to generate a large training set.
- paxys 2y agoThe article is (I'm assuming knowingly) written to give the impression that this was the work of some elite state-sponsored hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft/OpenAI's software. In reality they entered their credit card info and typed some commands, same as everyone else.
- mrbungie 2y agoDo they want to give off the vibe that their software is unreliable?. The same kind of software they want us to run 24/7 in enterprise/gov settings.
- whimsicalism 2y agoyes, it’s the last thing. this is how all reporting about China is and we just notice now because it’s our area of expertise
- rajup 2y agoJust big sounding words to make it sound like something nefarious is happening. Nothing of that sort actually happened, just OpenAI trying to save face.