Distillation Debate: A False Flag for Regulators? Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, has sparked a heated debate in the tech world with his comments on distillation.
On one hand, Silicon Valley giants like OpenAI and Anthropic accuse Chinese companies of copying their AI models through this process. On the other hand, Tan advises "do nothing" about it.
Distillation refers to using a more capable AI model's outputs to train a smaller or less capable one. This practice raises questions about who owns the rights to AI training data.