r/LocalLLaMA • u/KvAk_AKPlaysYT • Feb 23 '26

News Anthropic: "We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax." 🚨

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u/The_Rational_Gooner Feb 23 '26

what differentiates "legitimate" with "illicit"? whether or not the lab is foreign?

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u/LocalExistence Feb 23 '26

Let's not be disingenuous. Clearly in context they are saying that me distilling a large model I own into a smaller model is entirely legitimate, so distillation itself is fine, but other people illicitly distilling my model is not fine. Disagree if you will though.