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I made a visual explainer on model distillation: how a small AI can learn from a big one, and why labs say it’s being used to copy their models

Knowledge distillation started as a simple idea in a 2015 paper by Hinton, Vinyals and Dean: train a small model to imitate a big one. Now Anthropic and OpenAI say it’s being used at massive scale to copy their models through millions of API queries, and it’s surprisingly hard to block because the…

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  1. 2026-10-21 19:51 · r/learnmachinelearning
    I made a visual explainer on model distillation: how a small AI can learn from a big one, and why labs say it’s being used to copy their models

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