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How AI could eat itself: Using LLMs to distill rivals
(www.theregister.com)
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Oh I definitely think there's a propaganda angle here as well. Also, I would bet all these companies are interrogating each other's models as well. What they're really freaking out about is that their whole business model of selling subscription services to LLMs is visibly evaporating. OpenAI already floated the idea of banning DeepSeek in the US, and I bet US companies are going to ramp up that rhetoric now and they're setting up the ground for that. This might be the first time that Silicon Valley has direct competition with some new tech they're developing, and Chinese companies are eating their lunch right now.