Recently, foreign media reported thatByteDanceIn useOpenAITechnology to develop your ownLarge Language Model, violating OpenAI's terms of service, resulting in the account being banned by OpenAI.
In response to this, a relevant person in charge of ByteDance told the outside world that the company emphasized the need to abide by OpenAI's terms of use when using its related services.
The person in charge introduced that at the beginning of this year, when the technical team just started to explore the large model, some engineersGPTThe API service was used for experimental project research on a smaller model. The model was only for testing, not planned to be launched online, and never used externally. This practice has been stopped after the company introduced GPT API call specification checks in April.
In September, the company took measures to further ensure that API calls to GPT meet regulatory requirements. For example, it conducted batch sampling to test the similarity between the model output results and GPT to prevent data labelers from using GPT privately. The company is also communicating with OpenAI to clarify possible misunderstandings caused by external reports. The relevant person in charge of ByteDance emphasized, "In the next few days, we will conduct another comprehensive inspection to ensure strict compliance with the terms of use of related services."
According to Jiemian News, ByteDance spokesperson Jodi Seth said that the data generated by GPT was used to annotate the model in the early stages of the seed project development and was deleted from ByteDance's training data around the middle of this year. She said in a statement: "ByteDance has obtained Microsoft's permission to use the GPT API. We use GPT to power products and features in non-Chinese markets, but use our self-developed model to power Doubao, which is only available in China."