American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up (nytimes.com) 1 points by petilon 8d ago ↗ HN
[–] nezuzen 8d ago ↗ Gift article here:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/technology/ai-distillatio...
[–] uxhacker 8d ago ↗ Basically the article is arguing that distillation is a moat leak from USA to China.But what surprises me is that the frontier labs can’t detect the Chinese making the distillation attempts? [–] petilon 8d ago ↗ They can, that's how they know. The concern is that if they block, some legit users will get blocked as well, due to false positives. Remember, the distillation may not be happening from Chinese IP addresses.
[–] petilon 8d ago ↗ They can, that's how they know. The concern is that if they block, some legit users will get blocked as well, due to false positives. Remember, the distillation may not be happening from Chinese IP addresses.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 21.1 ms ] threadBut what surprises me is that the frontier labs can’t detect the Chinese making the distillation attempts?