model distillation
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Anthropic Distillation Battle Goes Dark Web, China Concerns Escalate
Anthropic’s head of threat intelligence, Jacob Klein, reports that Chinese companies are increasingly using illicit distillation to steal AI model technology. This practice involves exploiting proprietary models like Anthropic’s Claude to train competing technologies at lower costs. Klein cites Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model as an example of technology illicitly trained using Claude. The issue raises concerns about intellectual property theft and national security risks.