Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech
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Discussion
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@mkratsios47
Director Michael Kratsios
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The U.S. has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI. We will be taking action to protect American innovation. These foreign entities are using tens of thousands of proxies and jailbreaking tec…
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@natolambert
Nathan Lambert
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There's been a rapid increase in political chatter on the need to stop AI distillation “attacks”. I've been following this area closely, especially early legislation, as I see it being an area where initial action has pretty big unintended second order consequences. At face
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
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Chinese models are 6 months behind the frontier, and always will be (because they just distill the frontier)
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@s_oheigeartaigh
@s_oheigeartaigh
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If we take this claim at face value and follow through its implications, then it further undermines the logic of the ‘AI race’ as presented by US companies. If distillation is indeed playing a substantial role in Chinese companies' quick catch-up to the frontier, then this makes…
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@taoburr
Tao Burga
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These are great steps! Here's 8 other things we could do: 1. Congress should fund CAISI at ~$80 million instead of $10 mn, which is our internal analysis of what it'd take for CAISI to actually fulfill the purposes laid out in the AI Action Plan and other Trump admin directives. …
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@houseforeigngop
@houseforeigngop
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The Trump Administration is right: Chinese AI companies are stealing from America's crown jewel AI models to undermine U.S. national security. @RepHuizenga 's Deterring American AI Model Theft Act codifies these key White House action recommendations and passed out of committee …
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@senmikelee
Mike Lee
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Glad that President Trump is taking the threat of China's espionage seriously. Next step: ban them from America's national labs.
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@amir
Amir Efrati
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Uh... China is doing a lot more than just distilling U.S. models.
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@davidkuszmar.com
David Kuszmar
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I mean, DeepSeek switches to English when you mirror prompt it. [embedded post]
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r/technology
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US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it's “slander.”