AI Community's Double Standard on Distillation
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-07-16
A French meme making the rounds:
"There is good distillation, and there is bad distillation."
A follow-up reply turns this into a critique of the AI community's typical rhetoric:
- When certain teams do it, it's called "distillation."
- When others do it, it's dismissed as "sparkling synthetic data."
It's a classic piece of insider dark humor.
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