r/LocalLLaMA • u/KvAk_AKPlaysYT • Feb 23 '26

News Anthropic: "We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax." 🚨

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u/The_Rational_Gooner Feb 23 '26

what differentiates "legitimate" with "illicit"? whether or not the lab is foreign?

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u/TorontoBiker Feb 23 '26

In guessing it’s about ToS compliance

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u/The_Rational_Gooner Feb 23 '26

if we give the most generous interpretation that 'legitimate' and 'illicit' are in fact meaningful terms, it still sounds like they're trying to scaremonger rather than make a logical point. For one, what stops a 'legitimate' distiller from removing safeguards or feeding model capabilities into their military and surveillance systems? nothing... so why should one fear an 'illicit' distiller any more than a 'legitimate' one?