OpenAi Running scared of DeepSeek

Mar 25, 2025
6 min read

OpenAi has recently written an open letter to Donald Trump and the USA Government at large, we have devoured this document and simplified it as much as possible for everyone to understand without the 15 pages of pomp and nonsense that Sam Altman had requested.

BLUF: OpenAi is using the success of DeepSeek, to request the USA government to eliminate restrictions surrounding Ai development; pressure foreign governments to reduce copyright protections preventing legal access to training data; eliminate USA copyright laws enacted by their own states; prevent competitor nations (Notably China) from accessing USA intellectual property and advanced hardware (chips are already limited and Chinese Ai companies have managed to develop comparable models despite these restrictions); Have the USA government hand over classified data to Ai companies for further training; develop frontier Ai in conjunction with the USA government while protecting the companies from legal ramifications if something goes wrong.

The letter starts with a dystopian and frankly sycophantic quote from the current USA President setting the scene that Sam Altman the OpenAi CEO will swallow whatever Donald Trumps hands him.

“It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s global dominance in

order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security”

– President Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 14179, January 23, 2025

OpenAi then goes on to make some statements outlining its approach to the upcoming requests. The letter acknowledges that 70% of USA parents currently think that their children will grow up worse off than themselves, OpenAi does not dare to question why parents feel this way but does suggest that Ai is the answer to the question they refused to ask. The letter claims that Ai could drive a "significant" increase in productivity over the next decade; and that they are approaching Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and that this development will scale human ingenuity itself with historical comparisons to domesticating animals and the development of the wheel.

OpenAi wish to ensure that people have "freedom of intelligence", they clarify that this means "freedom to access and benefit from AGI protected from autocratic powers that would take peoples freedoms away" such as laws and bureaucracy that would prevent OpenAi from realising its dreams of Ai domination in the market that it is loosing a grip of. COMMENT: OpenAi's scraping of the internet to build its various Ai models was previously legal but has been coming under attack from new global regulations as well as some state level laws passed in the USA. ANALYSIS: it's probable that OpenAi's ongoing difficulties of obtaining high quality new data will lead to Sam Altman to push the current boundaries of artistic theft to gain further access to this data.

The letter then moves onto statements that many would see as conflicting for a company based in the USA; they state that the wish to "prevent Government use of Ai tools to amass power and control their citizens, or to threaten or coerce other states". This is a particularly surprising statement given that later in the document they clearly request the USA government to coerce other states to use USA developed Ai tools over those developed in other nations. OpenAi continues down this geopolitical trend stating outright that America [sic. USA] is competing with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party); and compares DeepSeek with Huewei in its scope of threat. COMMENT: this is typical fear mongering tactics USA politicians on their citizens especially in regard to threats to USA companies like that presented by TikToc, DJI or other phone manufacturers. The letter goes on to claim that the CCP is violating USA intellectual property (IP) rights, though does not acknowledge how Ai companies in general claim to be holding the vast amounts of data needed to train their models and that much of this data is the IP of people around the world much of which is under copyright protection.

Throughout the letter OpenAi use the term "CCP" almost like a slur, it comes across as angry that their competition in the market is doing well. OpenAi claims that the People's Republic of China (PRC) can quickly build its own domestic chip making capability because it is an authoritarian state. This claim is reinforced with the statement that "the PRC is unlikely to respect IP". COMMENT: China has thus far not been able to compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and is considered by many to be a primary reason for the creeping increase in aggression towards "unification" with Taiwan. It has been demonstrated that most large scale Ai companies do not respect the intellectual property of the global population and will freely take any data they can access, OpenAi wrote this very letter to encourage the reduction is copyright protection so it can improve its Ai models.

What OpenAi proposes:

A Regulatory strategy the ensures the freedom to innovate.
Promote the global adoption of American Ai systems.
A copyright strategy protecting the rights and interests of content creators while also protecting America’s Ai leadership and national security. To avoid forfeiting the Ai lead to the PRC by preserving American Ai models ability to learn from copyright material.
Policies to seize this unmissable opportunity to catalyse a deindustrialisation across the country, creating and supporting jobs, boosting local economies, modernising the energy grid, and preparing an Ai ready workforce.
A US government adoption strategy to advance ‘democratic’ Ai.
Provide the private sector relief from all 781 Ai related bills.
Reimagine the US Ai Safety Institute.
Empower the US government to work with large and start up Ai companies.
Provide American Ai companies with ‘tools’ and classified threat intelligence to mitigate security risks “exacerbated by frontier models” eg Cyber and CBRN.
Create a sandbox for American start ups, and provide companies with “liability protections from state based regulations the focus on frontier model security”. Allowing Ai companies to pursue bleeding-edge Ai technology free from “regulatory uncertainty.”
A comprehensive export policy to restrict the flow of Ai technologies to the PRC; and deploy Ai in line with democratic principles set out by the US Government.
The implementation of a three tier system to allow equipment to movement regulation; while also “protecting those systems from IP theft by the PRC”.
Tier 1 countries to include “American allies” that are forced to ban the use of PRC produced equipment.
Allow the export of advanced Ai chips to an end user located in a tier 2 country that meets the tier 1 security requirements with additional protective measures
Shape international policy discussions around copyright and Ai, to prevent “less innovative countries” from imposing their “legal regimes on American Ai firms” and slowing their rate of progress.
Determine whether other countries are “restricting American companies access to data and other critical inputs.”
Tax credit, loans, and other vehicles the US government can direct to provide credit enhancement.
“Digitizing government data currently in analog form. A lot of government data is in the public domain. Making it more accessible or machine-readable could help American AI developers of all sizes, especially those working in fields where vital data is often government-held.”
Create Ai economic zones that speed up the permitting for building infrastructure like new solar arrays, wind farms. And nuclear reactors.
Create categorical exclusions to the national environmental policy act.
Remove known blockers to the adoption of Ai tools, including outdated and lengthy accreditation processes, restrictive testing authorities, and inflexible procurement pathways.
Modernise cyber security rules for cloud based applications.
The government should allow federal agencies to test and experiment with real data using commercial standard practices.
For the government to pursue and fund bespoke national security pilot projects for which there may be no commercial market.

we will close with the complaints highlighted throughout this letter by OpenAi, it can be broken down into two parts; copyright and government.

Copyright Complaints

“American copyright law, including the longstanding fair use doctrine, protects the transformative uses of existing works, ensuring that innovators have a balanced and predictable framework for experimentation and entrepreneurship. This approach has underpinned American success through earlier phases of technological progress and is even more critical to continued American leadership on AI in the wake of recent events in the PRC.”

The European Union, for one, has created “text and data mining exceptions” with broadly applicable “opt-outs” any rights holder—meaning access to important AI inputs is less predictable and likely to become more difficult as the EU’s regulations take shape.

The UK government is currently considering changes to its copyright regime. It has indicated that it prefers creating a data mining exception that allows rights holders to “reserve their rights,”

The rapid advances seen with the PRC’s DeepSeek, among other recent developments, show that America’s lead on frontier AI is far from guaranteed.

If the PRC’s developers have unfettered access to data and American companies are left without fair use access, the race for AI is effectively over. America loses

Government Complaints

AI adoption in federal departments and agencies remains unacceptably low, with federal employees, and especially national security sector employees, largely unable to harness the benefits of the technology.

The government needs models trained on classified datasets that are fine-tuned to be exceptional at national security tasks for which there is no commercial market—such as Geo-spatial intelligence or classified nuclear tasks