24 April 2026 - 12:53
Category: IT Fail
AI Theft: The Sincerest Flattery
A White House memo suggests Chinese firms are busy distilling American AI models without bothering with the paperwork. It turns out that proprietary models aren't actually that proprietary.
Source: BBC News Technology
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Michael Kratsios has pointed out that US AI models are being systematically drained by firms overseas, presumably to save them the bother of doing their own homework. This mass distillation of models suggests that our cutting-edge tech is about as secure as a sieve in a rainstorm. Safeguarding these assets would require a level of intellectual property protection that currently seems to exist only in optimistic PowerPoint presentations and government memos.
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