Multiple threads criticizing Anthropic for hypocrisy around distillation complaints while pirating books, settling with authors, gatekeeping access, Mythos claims questioned if distillation attacks work against it
Critics are calling out Anthropic for what they perceive as blatant hypocrisy, labeling model distillation as "theft" while simultaneously settling legal cases over the alleged piracy of copyrighted books. Many argue that distillation is actually more ethical than Anthropic's own data collection methods because it involves paying API fees rather than scraping public sources without permission. Furthermore, some commenters question the technical prowess of the company’s models, suggesting that if their technology were truly as advanced as claimed, it would not be so vulnerable to distillation attacks in the first place.
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