What’s a suitable punishment Anthropic?
(chasing) Whats a suitable punishment motherfucker?
The thief cries “catch the thief!”
New Qwen release incoming!
Q: if you steal a stolen thng, is it stealing?
Nooooo, you can’t train on OUR data! That’s illegal!!!1
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If every AI company steals the public data separately, it means massively increased costs for everyone who is getting their data stolen. If the AI companies “steal” from each other it’s much better for everyone else.
No difference. Distillation is a valid and useful way of generating data to improve or make new models. It’s still just example data to be trained on. Anthropic is doing the same with their own models, and inadvertently every other model through web scraping.
The legal difference is that this data is uncopyrightable. At most it’s a TOS breach, nothing major.
Seems like it’s up to Anthropic to teach it’s AI model not to pimp itself out.
Ai is already dog shit, there is a level of concern if we start getting ai incest and the absolute fucking retards shoving this shit everywhere goes from using unethical ai to unethical incest ai.
There’s no way this isn’t just going to make everything worse.
I have zero sympathy for anthropic but can we not make a shit situation worse and just be ok with that cause the first dude is Hitler and the second dude is mega Hitler.
Ok the flip side if this some how creates a more efficient and power conservative model that doesn’t fuck over consumers and the environment as hard.
PIRATE MORE ALIBABA YOU DA CHAMP
I welcome it getting worse. The worse it gets the faster it will collapse.
Claude is trained on stolen data (the whole Internet), so I can’t have any sympathy for Anthropic when someone steals from them.
Why the fuck would they do that if Anthropic is being kind enough to just give them that data (regardless of how it makes them be butthurt)?
you can’t just call anything you don’t like “an attack”
I declare an attack!
You cannot just declare it. That doesn’t do anything…
How about “terrorism” or “national security threat”?
Stop attacking me!
Exactly!
Still, stop attacking me.
Okay, so Anthropic distills MY copywriter data and it’s fine.
Alibaba distills Anthropic non-copywritable and that demands retaliation at the nation state level.
Fuck off. The rules are abundantly clear.
Anthropic just knows it has political leverage, that’s it. Large parts of US infrastructure and business now rely on Claude models to even function the way they do with the staff they do, and you can leverage that dependence into political action and retaliation pretty easily in the name of “national security”.
Lol corporate thieves bitching about other corporate thieves is the funniest part of 2026
oh no, the data I stole is being stolen, whatever shall I do.
In other news, does anyone know a good source for crocodile tears? I ran out.
Sounds like Google complaining about scraping.
They stole to monetize without paying in money or attribution what we stole to monetize without paying money or attribution!
Well, they did pay, just after the fact.
Well they didn’t pay me. But still used all my open source mit and agpl, gpl icensed code to train their model. And now I need to rent their compute back.
You chose to publish under that essentially says “do whatever, I dont care”. I can understand people who wrote GPL code being peeved, but writing stuff under MIT is pretty much designed to let companies take it and not give back.
Sorry also some projects are agpl or gpl indeed. I actually meant to say agpl. They most likely also stole that. Let’s be honest here.
For example my WineGUI project is agpl. Also I’m also fine if they trained on it. But then they should open source their models and data and their other projects.
I mean sure, Anthropic are pricks, but “they did exactly what the license I put on my code said they could” is probably not the way to highlight that.
My bad. I actually meant agpl. And gpl. You’re right to point out the that mit is fine. Which is true. Mit can be used for whatever.
But my for example my WineGUI project is agpl. Pretty sure those Ai companies used all open source code regardless of the license.
I’m actually also fine if they trained on my agpl code. But then they should have open sourced their models and data. And their whole project.
That’s settlement, not a payment for the stolen goods. If I steal your shit, and to avoid going to jail I offer you some money, I am not paying for what I stole, I’m paying to avoid further consequences.
Claude’s still there, seems Alibaba’s attack wasn’t really all it’s cracked up to be.
Now the US gov’s attack seems to be working since Claude Fable 5 is still not there.
The article is not clear on what a “distillation attack” is… what exactly is Alibaba supposed to be getting away with here? The article mentions using many different connections through obfuscation networks and proxies… so that would get them around rate limiting, and maybe enable them to submit many queries on free accounts… just spin up a new account whenever you hit the token limit of an unpaid account. So basically it’s a terms of service violation?
I don’t see why it’s necessarily a huge leg up for a competitor… they are just using the outputs of another model as training data. They still need to train their model, which is the expensive and energy intensive part.
It sounds to me like Anthropic just wants the US Government to help enforce its TOS internationally and force Alibaba to pay for those precious tokens? Because apart from that piece, the “attack” just seems like normal use of the service. If Anthropic’s service has an inherent vulnerability, that’s their problem.
Of course all the other comments about how they stole all their training data in the first place are spot on.
Distillation allows you to make a smaller model that can produce the same outputs as a larger model. Basically they’re pirating all of the hard work anthropic did pirating the entire internet.
Alibaba gets a model that produces basically the same output for a tiny fraction of the cost to operate the model once it’s finished training. Distillation training also uses basically all of its data from the big model (afaik it’s all of it sourced from the parent model)
It’s like if you took a lump of metal and showed it Porsche 911s until it turned into a 911 shaped chunk of metal that had 95% of the performance, but it only cost you $3000 for the ingot, and also cost ⅕ the amount in fuel and maintenance.
Ok, thanks for the detailed explanation. I guess if your goal is to make your model sound like another model that makes perfect sense.
Maybe they can protect themselves with a… great firewall of USA?
Is there a scenario in which they both lose? I’ll take that.
Alibabas Qwen were among the first open weights models that were actually useful and can be run on consumer hardware without too much difficulties.
If they continue with that, they will hurt the business model of the big AI companies significantly, accelerating the burst of the bubble.
I heard there was some new AI model that was so amazing for cyber security that they had to limit access to it. It’s just too bad Anthropic couldn’t use that.
