Tbh, there really needs to be some legal precedent set that makes model distillation a legal activity. If the model makers can rip everyone else's work and launder information as if it's their own without giving credit back to the original creators, I don't see why it should be illegal to distill the models. It's the same thing the frontier model makers are doing to IP everywhere else.

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mewpmewp2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And which leading country is going to go for allowing other countries to distill their models?

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vineyardmike 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If your country doesn't have any leading models, why not legalize distillation, either explicitly or implicitly?

(Chinese labs famously distilled American models, and that seems to be going well for them. They now have a competitive industry, home-grown talent choosing not to leave, and they now can truly compete without distillation).

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dimitar an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It doesn’t have to be the leading countries, if the EU allows it, it is good enough to create a market for distilled models

	▲	mewpmewp2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But EU is way behind right?