'That's a distillation attack': devs joke about blocking AI training from their PRs
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-03
Developer adamchal joked that when someone asked "what do you think about this PR?" he replied "nice try buddy, that's a distillation attack" and blocked them — a riff on AI labs scraping public code and discussions to train models. zetalyrae's retweet turned it into a shareable AI-community meme about distillation paranoia.
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