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AI Model Distillation Debate
Anthropic and OpenAI accuse Chinese AI developers of using distillation to train cheaper copies of their models. The article explains how this technique works and why it is difficult to prevent.
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Scientific American
Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models’ answers to train cheaper copycats. Here’s how distillation works and why it’s so hard to stop
2026-10-07 11:00 UTC