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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. jedberg · 1790785970 · 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. arctic-true · 1790786247 · focus · HN ↗

         They spend 95% of the money, perhaps, but burning compute is not the same as doing the work.

         1. jedberg · 1790786332 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm calling "work" here the conversion of energy to LLMs.

            1. AlexandrB · 1790788101 · focus · HN ↗

               I think more energy was spent creating the original works than training the LLMs on them. Not just energy but blood, sweat, and tears as well.

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