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The AI Race Just Got Awkward

412 points · 463 comments · allisdust

  1. cmiles8 · · 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. jedberg · · focus · HN ↗
      What Anthropic is doing requires way more resources than what the Chinese labs are doing. So their complaint is that they do 95% of the work and the Chinese labs do the last 5% and call it their own.

      An argument can be made that Anthropic is also only doing the last 5% of the work (because the content they are training on was the other 95%) but that's a bit more philosophical.

      1. watwut · · focus · HN ↗
        You are going to be surprised to hear how many resources were necessary to create all the data Anthropic is digesting
        1. ipsod · · focus · HN ↗
          From one perspective, the 5% estimation is near-infinite orders of magnitude off, since they've trained on something approaching the sum-total of human knowledge.
          1. freejazz · · focus · HN ↗
            > human knowledge

            that's an interesting way to describe reddit posts

          2. Paradigma11 · · focus · HN ↗
            So, like an encyclopedia?
            1. ipsod · · focus · HN ↗
              More like google (when google just served content off of the website you were searching for), but also fed every form of media, turned up to 11, and given agency far beyond retrieval.
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