Algorithmic Theft Is the Perfect Crime: Why Chinese Labs May Not Need Distillation
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-07
Responding to the argument that stolen algorithms would show up in Chinese labs' open-source models, teortaxesTex counters that unlike distillation, "algorithmic theft" is a perfect crime: American labs keep their algorithmic details unpublished, so there is no way to verify how Chinese labs achieve parity — suggesting V4.1 could effectively be "a smol Astra." His bottom line: compute is compute.
More from AGI Musings
- Katja Grace on how the 'doomer' label reframes AI-risk advocates as purveyors of doom — KatjaGrace · 2026-10-07
- Sci-fi's dystopia bias makes people reflexively equate new tech with grimdark futures — bradneuberg · 2026-10-07
- Sam Altman Says Humanity Is 'Entering a New Era of Discovery' as AI Cracks Harder Math — Polymarket · 2026-10-07
- Lacking continual learning priors is why frontier labs pour compute into RL — akbirthko · 2026-10-07
- OpenAI is solving math to prove AI can master a domain without replacing any jobs — paulnovosad · 2026-10-07
- AI tops layoff causes: 120k US job cuts cite AI, yet unemployment holds at 4.2% — _jaydeepkarale · 2026-10-07