NSA, FBI, CISA advisory accuses Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models
Cklly2004 · reddit · 2026-09-09
The NSA, FBI and CISA jointly accused China-based AI companies of conducting 'aggressive, industrial-scale distillation' of US frontier AI models — systematically extracting capabilities to close the gap without frontier-scale compute and R&D costs, spread across multiple providers and cloud platforms to evade detection. The deeper question: if frontier capabilities can be efficiently distilled via repeated queries, what does 'having a better model' even mean in the AI race?
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