After Anthropic and OpenAI accuse Chinese AI companies of ‘distillation’, billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya says, ‘Cannot complain when you yourself have … ’
Chamath Palihapitiya questions US AI labs' stance on distillation practices. He notes these labs also used copyrighted internet data without permission. Distillation involves learning from another AI's outputs, mirroring their own methods. This practice allows smaller models to gain capabilities from larger ones. The core issue for frontier labs is economic and a competitive moat problem.
Chamath Palihapitiya questions US AI labs' stance on distillation practices. He notes these labs also used copyrighted internet data without permission. Distillation involves learning from another AI's outputs, mirroring their own methods. This practice allows smaller models to gain capabilities from larger ones. The core issue for frontier labs is economic and a competitive moat problem.
