Opinion: Distillation is not a crime, despite labs trying to make it one
jd_pressman · x · 2026-08-21
Amidst major AI labs' efforts to criminalize model distillation, the poster reaffirms that distillation is not a crime. This highlights the legal and ethical divide between the open-source community and closed-source labs regarding knowledge extraction methods.
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