AI Companies Complaining About Distillation Is Peak Hypocrisy

zacharylipton · x · 2026-07-07

AI scholar Zachary Lipton tweeted sarcastically that AI companies—which trained their own models by scraping internet data without permission—are now complaining about others "distilling" their models. He called it the biggest hypocrisy in human history, directly calling out the double standards of top AI firms regarding data and intellectual property issues.

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