PewDiePie Says OpenAI Banned Him Twice While Distilling GPT Into a Local Model
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-10-04
- PewDiePie says OpenAI banned his account twice while he was building a small local model by learning from GPT's answers.
- The thread highlights the irony: OpenAI trained on the open web for years, yet a user distilling from its outputs gets banned — "same idea, opposite consequences."
- It raises the broader question: if distillation is theft, what do we call the original training run, and who actually owns the pipeline?
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