> Microsoft’s security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount of data using the OpenAI application programming interface, or API, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is confidential.

> Such activity could violate OpenAI’s terms of service or could indicate the group acted to remove OpenAI’s restrictions on how much data they could obtain

What do we think this means in practice?

"Exfiltrating data" makes it sound like they were taking private chat logs, but I imagine that would be a much bigger deal. I'm assuming it's just using multiple free OpenAI accounts across a bunch of different IP addresses to generate a large training set.