China-based AI companies are using large-scale knowledge distillation campaigns to copy capabilities from leading U.S. AI models, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory from the CISA, NSA, and FBI. Knowledge distillation is a standard AI training technique that uses outputs from a more capable model to help train another model. The agencies say companies in China have used it at industrial scale to extract restricted capabilities including reasoning, coding and other specialized functions, making distillation … More →
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