PewDiePie Says OpenAI Banned Him for Distilling Chain-of-Thought into His Own Model
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-02
PewDiePie claims OpenAI banned him after he used Sol's chain-of-thought outputs to distill-train Ajax, his fine-tuned open-source model — a rare public case of OpenAI enforcing its clause prohibiting the use of CoT outputs to train competing models.
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