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by ForHackernews 4 days ago
By then you've already distilled it. Copying is super reliable. It's a historically-proven way to get nearly the same thing at a fraction of the cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage#Second-m...

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Howre you going distill if they block your access e.g. Fable
Just bribe someone for access, it's still cheaper than training your own model from scratch. They stole the entire accumulated output of humanity and fed it to their beast, no one should feel any moral or ethical compunction about taking from the AI firms.

Welcome to the age of digital realpolitik.

Chinese are probably laughing reading this.
Same problem, different scope. The EU doesn’t have a proper intelligence agencies, it has members who each run their own. The chances that any of them can achieve the scale of China’s spies is silly.
How you make ROI when your model is blocked?