Washington Is Looking to Keep China From Training Its AI on US Models

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Anthropic and OpenAI's warnings about adversarial distillation, the practice of querying a rival's AI model at scale to train a cheaper competitor on its outputs, are reviving a long running Silicon Valley debate now playing out in Washington. 8 million exchanges with its models, and has previously accused several Chinese AI labs of running similar schemes to mine its outputs.

The company is now pressing lawmakers to treat the practice as a national security issue rather than a private contract dispute, calling for penalties and stronger export controls, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly beginning to coordinate on curbing it.