A post in r/LocalLLaMA says PewDiePie used OpenAI's API to build training data for a local model, was banned for using its outputs to train another model, won an appeal, did it again and was banned a second time, then switched to open-source tools to build a fully local agent. Those details are the poster's account. The top reply, with about 1,600 upvotes: "Especially because he paid them. They paid no one." Other replies point to OpenAI's own data scraping and to how expensive the hardware for local models still is.

It scored highest of any thread in our sweep relative to its subreddit's size (about 4,300 upvotes in a 329,000-member community).