I'm strictly speaking never going to think of model distillation as "stealing." It goes against the spirit of scientific research, and besides every tech company has lost my permission to define what I think of as theft forever
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I think it's clear that innovative breakthroughs in bleeding-edge research are not just a matter of blindly hurling more money at a company to build unprecedentedly expensive datacenters
But also, even if that was a way to do it, I don't think we should be wielding the law to enable privately-held companies to be at the forefront of research, especially in such a grossly inconsistent manner