What policy has the company behind Tik Tok violated?
One need only read OpenAI’s terms of use to see that ByteDance’s france telemarketing practicewas doomed to failure. According to its website, the company does not permit “using Output to develop any AI model that competes with our products and services” or “any method of extracting data from the Services other than those permitted through the APIs.”
This was revealed by Alex Hearth, deputy editor of the specialist media The Verge, in an extensive article entitled “ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI technology to build a competitor”.
Specifically, internal documents seen by Hearth confirm that OpenAI's API was relied upon to develop its core LLM, codenamed Project Seed, during nearly every phase of development, including for model training and evaluation.
With this move, OpenAI is marking its territory and taking a breath to distance itself from ByteDance in the field of Artificial Intelligence, a technology that is behind the success of its most successful product worldwide: Tik Tok.
Tik Tok and Artificial Intelligence
More and more companies are advancing their research to develop AI that offers better results to users and, in this context, companies that offer social networks are among those that are investing the most.
But in the field of social media, Tik Tok is one of those with the biggest advantage. The algorithm that the platform uses to suggest content to users is very advanced and has practically no competition, as it is far behind its main competitors, the networks of the Meta group, Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp.
And not only has it not been satisfied with having a leading AI in the field of social networks, but for months now it has been p
