Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities(reuters.com)
792 points by htrp 58 days ago | 1289 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Anthropic is hypocritical for complaining about data extraction when they trained on others' works
  • Distillation via paid API access isn't illegal or illicit, just a TOS violation at most
  • Explains the actual mechanics of Chinese reseller token arbitrage and distillation operations
  • ~Distillation is technically impossible to prevent, so resistance is futile
  • Comparing this to historical tech IP disputes like Apple/Xerox shows the irony