AI industry joke: “our moat is that our terms forbid distillation”
viksit · x · 2026-07-23
A short AI-industry joke: when asked “what’s your moat?”, the reply is simply that the service terms of use forbid model distillation.
It reads as a dry jab at how labs try to protect their advantage through policy rather than only through technical barriers.
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