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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. mrwh · 1790786054 · focus · HN ↗

         I mean, 95% of the work if you don't factor the work to create the training data in the first place...

         1. cyanydeez · 1790786167 · focus · HN ↗

            also, the actual work is the _copyrighted material created by the world_.

            1. mrwh · 1790801414 · focus · HN ↗

               Indeed! Basically all of human civilization up until this point

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