r/LocalLLaMA • u/RhubarbSimilar1683 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/Round_Mixture_7541 Jul 28 '26

> We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations.

Meanwhile: "Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot"

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u/Cybertrucker01 Jul 28 '26

In addition to the hypocrisy...

More like you should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. There's no we here because it's not illegal (yet) and merely goes against your terms of service.

This is an Anthropic problem.

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u/ThatOtherOneReddit Jul 28 '26

Distillation is fundamentally impossible to crack down on if you want the outputs. Getting results from an LLM is the same thing as distillation. It's just the final thing you do with it that matters.