PewDiePie gets banned twice by OpenAI for using Sol to distill training data
Hesamation · x · 2026-10-01
Top YouTuber PewDiePie tried distilling a model using Sol to generate seed training data — and got banned by OpenAI twice. After his first appeal succeeded, he ran Sol again and was banned immediately, mocking tech giants for 'stealing our data' while blocking consumers from theirs.
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