A Tom Gauld cartoon turns distillation into an AI siege war
OwariDa · x · 2026-07-23
A Tom Gauld cartoon jokes about the “blessed” side of post-training versus a “barbarous distillation attack.”
- Left side: small-scale SFT bootstrapping, teacher-generated trajectories, and model-graded rollouts.
- Right side: industrial-scale capability extraction, reasoning-trace extraction, and a hijacked reward oracle.
It’s a neat visual parody of how model training pipelines are described in AI circles.
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