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.
The conversation here is mostly moral and ethical but the problem here seems to be financial.
Anthropic and OpenAi are spending a $$$$ to "distill" human output into an AI model, then others are spending $$ to distill their AI model into a near-equivalent model.
This is the same reason IP rights exist. On the surface, something like a patent feels ludicrious and even feels morally wrong. Some guy wrote down the recipe for arranging atoms or bits in a particular way, and now I can't!? However, it's designed to solve the same problem, figuring out and describing the process is much more costly than replicating it.
Model weights wouldn't be covered in a patent. You could patent a method of creating weights in a model, but you couldn't patent the weights themselves.
I wish people here could at least bother to inform themselves about the IP rights they are so quick to insist are abhorrent, when they seem to not even have a first clue as to what they actually cover.
cmiles8 · · focus · HN ↗
Feels like Anthropic crying do as I say not as I do.
seizethecheese · · focus · HN ↗
Anthropic and OpenAi are spending a $$$$ to "distill" human output into an AI model, then others are spending $$ to distill their AI model into a near-equivalent model.
This is the same reason IP rights exist. On the surface, something like a patent feels ludicrious and even feels morally wrong. Some guy wrote down the recipe for arranging atoms or bits in a particular way, and now I can't!? However, it's designed to solve the same problem, figuring out and describing the process is much more costly than replicating it.
freejazz · · focus · HN ↗
I wish people here could at least bother to inform themselves about the IP rights they are so quick to insist are abhorrent, when they seem to not even have a first clue as to what they actually cover.