Security Researcher Slams Frontier Labs for Ignoring Model Distillation Attack Reports

matthew_d_green · x · 2026-08-11

Security expert Matthew Green criticized frontier model labs for failing to support security research.

He pointed out that when researchers demonstrated an attack allowing a third party to distill models from a trillion-dollar frontier lab, the lab acknowledged the issue but offered no bounties or support. Green described this disregard for responsible disclosure as "reprehensible."

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