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The meme jokes about AI model distillation.OpenAI is shown doing the hard work of collecting and processing real-world data into ChatGPT, while DeepSeek is shown taking value from ChatGPT’s outputs instead of fishing directly from the original “real data” source.The joke implies that DeepSeek benefits from OpenAI’s work by distilling or learning from ChatGPT-like responses.

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