According to the company behind ChatGPT, DeepSeek is systematically attempting to extract knowledge from leading American AI systems in order to improve its own models. In the memo, which OpenAI sent to the U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, OpenAI outlines attempts to circumvent technical and access restrictions. The company claims that accounts linked to DeepSeek employees have developed methods to access AI models via external, obfuscated network routes.
On Thursday, Google announced that "commercially motivated" actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the model more than 100,000 times across various non-English languages, collecting responses ostensibly to train a cheaper copycat. Google published the findings in what amounts to a quarterly self-assessment of threats to its own products that frames the company as the victim and the hero, which is not unusual in these self-authored assessments.