PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice for distillation while building his local AI model Ajax
likeastar20 · reddit · 2026-10-03
- YouTuber PewDiePie unveiled Ajax, an "uncensored" AI model built to run on home PCs, and says OpenAI banned his account twice during its development.
- He claims the bans were tied to distilling OpenAI models and experimenting with decrypting chain-of-thought outputs.
- Covered by Tom's Hardware; Ajax targets local, self-hosted inference on consumer hardware.
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