Why “distills” is being discussed
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For sure, everybody distills when they can, it would be stupid not to. I'm just pointing out that Chinese companies clearly do their own research and innovation just like Americ…
by yogthos · Sep 21, 2026
Every model provider distills each other even if for benchmarking. Agree with all your points.
by 4d4m · Sep 21, 2026
If the US companies had to negotiate with the 7.3 million rights holders, we wouldn’t be here, and we would have probably got a system where the models were never released in a…
by intended · Sep 19, 2026
Does it even matter if it distills other models? ethically no, because the information was originally stolen from us users... it is indirectly harming anthropic if it is happeni…
by Retro_Dev · Sep 18, 2026
My first thought is, does this mean that along with the burnout I'm feeling with talking to my own agents I now need to try and consume and understand my teammates conversations…
by pipes · Sep 18, 2026
I agree that there is not an orange to orange comparison, but I have still not seen a law that could scale as well. The example that comes to mind with a proposed law like this…
by DownGoat · Sep 18, 2026
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Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances by selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still. Read more on Wikipedia