What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models answers to train cheaper copycats. Here s how distillation works and why it s so hard to stop

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2026-10-07 11:00 · Scientific American
What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

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