alt Hacker NewsAnthropic is claiming that training an LLM to mimic another LLM is materially different and worse than slurping up stuff written by humans (even if that material is stolen).
Basically, they want IP protection for Claude. This is a nakedly hypocritical stance, but completely understandable from a company-needs-to-make-money standpoint.
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How does anyone justify this? How can you argue this in good faith?
>This is a nakedly hypocritical stance, but completely understandable from a company-needs-to-make-money standpoint.
No, it's perfectly reasonable once you get down to reality.
China is not going to care about IP. That's just a fact. So either nobody cares about IP (at the very last in this context) and any AI company can just do whatever with data, or Chinese companies have to be held up to scrutiny.
We don't have the privilege to be able to hold western companies to higher ethical, legal, and environmental standards and not risk competitiveness.
That there is a whole lot of people right now who insist on doing above and still somehow praise China at every turn is something historians or news outlets will have to make sense of in some 5 years time.
Google is apparently taking a different stance and offering distillation as a paid product
https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platfo...
Their claim is even stronger than that, they have complaints about their models being used as a validation step for other model output, which is standard practice in the industry.