[nstart]

Tbh, there really needs to be some legal precedent set that makes model distillation a legal activity. If the model makers can rip everyone else's work and launder information as if it's their own without giving credit back to the original creators, I don't see why it should be illegal to distill the models. It's the same thing the frontier model makers are doing to IP everywhere else.

[boppo1]

I agree. But this won't happen in the US because Anthropic / OpenAI is a big ol economic recession risk because we levered ourselves to the tits and put our chips on them.

[CuriouslyC]

OAI and Anthropic can actually both tank, MS would pick up OAI's IP, Amazon would pick up Anthropic's, and Google would keep cruising. We'd have a model plateau for a while but ultimate AI would keep on chugging.

If AI fails as a technology, it's going to lead to a great depression and probably either a revolution or WWIII.

[jayd16]

Explain how an AI bust would tank the economy? They don't employ enough to feel the hit from that.

They're not even IPOed so how do they tank the market? GPU and ram prices will go down but that will actually help most tech companies.

I don't think the rest of the economy is inflated on the fantasy gains of AI.

We could actually go back to feeling like we can invest in products and content without FOMO.

[mewpmewp2]

And which leading country is going to go for allowing other countries to distill their models?

[vineyardmike]

If your country doesn't have any leading models, why not legalize distillation, either explicitly or implicitly?

(Chinese labs famously distilled American models, and that seems to be going well for them. They now have a competitive industry, home-grown talent choosing not to leave, and they now can truly compete without distillation).

[dimitar]

It doesn’t have to be the leading countries, if the EU allows it, it is good enough to create a market for distilled models

[mewpmewp2]

But EU is way behind right?