[behnamoh]

So? And Anthropic/OpenAI literally stole copyrighted content to train their models.

[Springtime]

The point was that distilling based on others' models for training means they're not spending the same amount on R&D and/or training, giving them headroom in other ways (responding to the parent's point). It wasn't a comment reflecting on copyright/fair use.

[behnamoh]

In the same fashion, Anthropic/OpenAI also reduced their training cost by not purchasing the license to copyrighted work and stealing it instead.