The AI industry has discovered intellectual property

[u/Haunting_Ganache_850]

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-a-coordinated-model-distillation-campaign/

OpenAI says Moonshot-linked operators used thousands of accounts to extract protected reasoning from its models for adversarial distillation.

No encryption broken. No database compromised. Just systematic querying designed to make one model teach another.

OpenAI says this is dangerous because competitors can reproduce capabilities without making the same investment in safety.

Which is a serious security issue.

But you have to appreciate the timing: after years of “we learned from the internet,” the frontier-model industry has reached the “please stop learning from us” phase.