this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 50 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"While distillation is a legitimate way for companies to produce smaller, cheaper versions of their own frontier models, it's illegal for competitors to leverage it to acquire such capabilities from other AI companies at a fraction of the time and cost that would take them if they were to develop them on their own."

Is this actually illegal or just against their TOS lol

[–] errer@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s illegal because they’ll sue your ass into oblivion and force you to settle before the court can actually rule on the legality of it

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 weeks ago

Sue China or its companies into oblivion? Good luck.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 48 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Was kinda confused at first about how Internet Protocol got mixed up in this

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Same. How could a machine steal its own IP address? It doesn't make sense!

[–] joker54@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't copyright content not created by a human. Wouldn't this mean it's not IP, instead it's at most trade secrets?

Following that logic, if their trade secrets give themselves away, legally speaking, they are SOL

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How can it be a secret if they gave it away?

[–] joker54@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly this.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If only Anthropic and other AI companies were even a little bit caring about the way they abusively scrape and pirate from websites of small creators that have no means to combat them, maybe I'd find it easier to sympathise.

As far as I see it, getting pirated themselves is just karma.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

Man your pfp just made me so nostalgic lmao.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks ago

They train on my open source code without following the license, so throw them all in jail.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago

How can something be illegal to do if they did it in another country?

Why are they so against progress? /s

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

That's tough, buddy.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Chatgpt, cry me a river

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

lololololololol

I'm sorry. The sheer ingenuity and creativity here is astonishing.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine how much money and energy we are wasting by gatekeeping so much stuff. I never realized how expensive it is to avoid collaboration until AI came along.