ByteDance imposes strict ban on distilling competitor AI models: how Beijing responds to US accusations
🚫 ByteDance has banned its AI engineers from using competitor models for training.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Amidst accusations from OpenAI and Anthropic against Chinese firms, Beijing is trying to distance itself from "intellectual theft".
🤖 The distillation technology allows creating cheap copies of powerful models, but ByteDance has now abandoned this method for business security.
📉 Internal disputes are ongoing within the company: abandoning the method may slow down development, but it will preserve access to markets.
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