> "Anti-distillation: injecting fake tools to poison copycats"

Plot twist: Chinese competitors end up developing real, useful versions of Claude's fake tools.

I cannot bring myself to care about distillation, when these companies have built their empires on top of everyone else's stolen data, while at the same time telling the world they're out to replace us all.

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xvector an hour ago | parent [-]

Sure, AI progress comes to a halt then as everyone switches to the copycats that can't innovate, and the frontier companies are bled dry.

	▲	AmbroseBierce 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"frontier" as in the frontier of using everybody else's code, books, art of everyone else for a specific purpose that was never intended to, as in, not even open source projects ever imagined LLMs becoming a thing and their licenses reflected as much.
	▲	girvo an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Poor babies. Again, I don’t care about them.

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3abiton 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tbh, I think distillation is happening both ways. And at this stage, "quality" is stagnating, the main edge is the tooling. The harness of CC seems to be the best so far, and I wonder if this leak would equalize the usability.

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redanddead 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Definitely. We can expect zAI, Qwen, Minimax CCs very soon

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WorldPeas 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

more likely, they would parse them out using simple regex, the whole point is they're there but not used. Distillation is becoming less common now however

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scuff3d 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This was my favorite bit, "We're going to steal countless copy righted works and completely ignore software licenc... wait, what? You aren't allowed to turn around and do it to us! Stop that right now!"