An X rant calls out people misusing “distillation” in AI eval debates
basedjensen · x · 2026-07-24
A blunt X reply pushes back on people throwing around distillation without understanding it.
- The post is essentially a heated reaction to a claim that weaker Cyber performance suggests distillation because queries are blocked by frontier-model classifiers.
- Its value is less in new evidence than in capturing the kind of technical flamewar that regularly erupts around model evaluation and distillation claims.
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