alt Hacker News> That's the difference between innovating and copying/distilling someone else's innovation.
Aren't the models from Anthropic and OpenAI simply the distilled work of everyone else who ever put their work online, or in books?
Why is their distillation okay, but other distillations not ok?
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mike_hearn • today at 8:46 AM
Not at all. At this point, a large amount of the work is in reinforcement learning where they are effectively generating their own data.
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The difference I was referring to was economic; I was not making an ethical judgment. So many people seem to be reading my comment as making an ethical judgment (based on their reactions); maybe I should edit it to clarify.
Nope, seems I'm past the edit window. Oh well.