DeepSeek may have used Google's Gemini to train its latest model

> Distillation isn’t an uncommon practice, but OpenAI’s terms of service prohibit customers from using the company’s model outputs to build competing AI.

I have the absolute tiniest of violins for this given OpenAI's behaviour vs everyone else's terms of service.

At this point, they all using each other because so much of the new content they are scraping for data is generated.

These models will converge and plateau because the datasets are only going to get worse as more of their content is incestuous.