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The AI Race Just Got Awkward

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  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. cyanydeez · · 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 · · 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. pdntspa · · focus · HN ↗
          It isn't, that is whole point. A normie hears that word and they think vodka.
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