A call for more public analysis of distillation
peterwildeford · x · 2026-07-20
The author says there should be more public analysis of distillation.
They cite a quote arguing that Anthropic’s public policy papers have not made a strong enough case about distillation, and that there has been lots of work on emergent misalignment but not enough on whether distillation is a key driver of Chinese AI progress.
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