Schmidhuber backs open-source distillation as a legitimate part of the model lineage
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-24
The post argues that open-source models should be allowed to distill what commercial companies have already distilled freely from the internet. It also cites a 1991 publication on distillation and says the idea was later copied in the US and China.
The core point is a philosophical one about openness, reuse, and whether today’s model ecosystem should treat distillation as a legitimate part of the research lineage rather than something uniquely proprietary.
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