Conspiracy Theory: OpenAI Adds Artifacts to Thwart Model Distillation

flowersslop · x · 2026-08-18

A user suspects OpenAI intentionally adds acutance haloing to image model v2 outputs, causing distillation attempts to overfit. OpenAI could then release a better model without these artifacts, rendering distilled models useless. The user notes a similar pattern occurred with Grok Imagine 2.

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