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1. cmiles8 · 1790785395 · focus · HN ↗

   Why is it a problem that the Chinese labs are just distilling down Anthropic’s models? Aren’t Anthropic’s models not just distilling down other people’s work?

   Feels like Anthropic crying do as I say not as I do.

   1. cyanydeez · 1790786134 · focus · HN ↗

      Because no one outside the AI scientists understand what distilling means. They probably all think about Mash and a vodka still, and a completely unrelated association.

      The word itself is the pivot, not anything else.

      1. hn_throwaway_99 · 1790786305 · focus · HN ↗

         > They probably all think about Mash and a vodka still, and a completely unrelated association.

         I don't know anyone with even a passing understanding of how LLM training works that thinks that is the appropriate analogy.

         1. cyanydeez · 1790787103 · focus · HN ↗

            cool, do you think these media representations are for you, or 99% of the people who would love China to be sanctioned because they're foreigners?
         2. pdntspa · 1790788773 · focus · HN ↗

            It isn't, that is whole point. A normie hears that word and they think vodka.

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