@_FORAB: Bro also counts as the first person across the entire internet. PewDiePie, the YouTube vlogger with over 100 million fa…
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PewDiePie revealed he built a local AI model fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, but admitted to distilling OpenAI's ChatGPT outputs as seed data, which got his account banned twice. His public gripe about OpenAI's own use of web data sparked online debate over whether distillation should be penalized.
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Bro also counts as the first person across the entire internet. PewDiePie, the YouTube vlogger with over 100 million fans, recently announced that he built a local AI model, fine-tuned based on Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5.
What really made this go viral is that he admitted during the model-building process, he distilled OpenAI’s AI model, which got his account banned.
Although one time, after receiving the ban email due to distillation, he successfully appealed it.
But this death-wishing guy went on to keep using ChatGPT’s outputs as seed data to train his own AI, which got him banned again.
He even showed that email in his video, and asked them how they knew he was distilling.
But he also griped that OpenAI used data from around the whole world to train ChatGPT, so why couldn’t he distill ChatGPT himself? Then a bunch of netizens actually took his side, calling out OpenAI’s big-corp behavior.
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