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Nathan Lambert 转发经济学人文章《Let China copy American AI》，表示很高兴看到更多机构探讨这些观点，并认为知识蒸馏对美国 AI 竞争力不利并非定论。文章作者 @kuhhbin 认为，价格竞争对生态有益；蒸馏可能反而有利于国家安全，因为它将美国开发者在网络与生物风险上的安全措施传播到中国模型，并让中国保持在快速跟随模式；且美国厂商的知识产权主张并不牢靠，因为蒸馏与他们训练数据所依赖的 fair use 辩护差别不大。
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Glad to see more institutions exploring the ideas here. I don’t think it’s cut and dry that distillation is bad for the US’s AI competitiveness.
In praise of distillation. We (@kuhhbin) argue in @TheEconomist this week against efforts to ban Chinese models trained in part on American ones. OpenAI and Anthropic may dislike distillation, but: — Price competition is good for the ecosystem — Paradoxically, distillation may be good for national security, both in propagating US developers' safeguards on cyber/bio risk to Chinese models, and in keeping China in fast-follower mode — The US developers' own IP claims here are pretty flimsy, since distillation isn't all that different to the 'fair use' defense they're using for the training data they hoover up. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/10/29/let-china-copy-american-ai在 X 查看被引用的帖子
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