Researcher calls out anti-distillation hypocrisy: trained on the open web, banning others from learning
StanfordAILab · x · 2026-11-02
Researcher Jiahao Shao argues the anti-distillation crusade by major AI labs is a peak double standard: they train on the open web—books, code, forums, everyone else's work—then ban anyone from learning from their outputs at scale. Protecting a moat is one thing, he says; moralizing it while standing on scraped knowledge is another. Retweeted by Stanford AI Lab.
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