Fields medalist Yu Deng calls out OpenAI's double standard on distillation
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-27
Fields medalist Yu Deng joins the distillation debate, arguing OpenAI's position is self-contradictory: it distilled all human knowledge to train its models yet opposes others distilling from it — a double standard. He concedes that concerns about open-sourcing very powerful models too early can be legitimate, but 'I can distill you, you can't distill me' doesn't hold logically. The reposter quips that Chinese mathematicians siding with distillation is a funny twist.
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