They're inexpensive because they're derived from his creation.

The creation--which isn't "his" in the first place, by any standard definition--was not only itself "derived from" our creations but was always supposed to be "open".

> which isn't "his" in the first place, by any standard definition

I was saying that because of the previous comment:

> to Scam Altman's creation

It wasn't derived in the same way though - I can read loads of books and so can write my own book, but that's not derivation in the same way as the Deepseek's derivation.