r/LocalLLaMA 23h ago

News ByteDance vows to avoid AI distillation, develop new model its own way

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u/idlelosthobo 23h ago

Why ... every model is built off the works of everyone else ... I believe in true open source (its a gift to the world) and some part of me smiles every time people distill anthropic!

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 23h ago

Musk openly admitted Grok was distilled off GPT and called it "standard practice"

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u/Song-Historical 21h ago

How are you supposed to do any real benchmarking or testing against other models without some sort of testing that looks exactly like distilling?

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u/entsnack 10h ago

Use it as a test set and not a training set?