What is Model Distillation?
Elon Musk said under oath that xAI partly distills OpenAI's models, and the courtroom gasped. Host Emily Laird takes apart what model distillation actually is, why hiding chain of thought was never a real defense (fabricated reasoning traces deliver roughly 96.7 percent of the value of genuine internal access), and what 24,000 fraudulent accounts look like when no vulnerability was exploited and the product worked exactly as designed. The uncomfortable part is structural: every dollar spent making a model cleaner and safer makes it a better teacher for whoever is copying it. Capability…
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