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Srsly Risky Biz: America won't beat the distillation ecosystem

lowriskybiz_newsPublished 2026-07-02

<p>Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about Chinese AI labs stealing the special sauce of American AI models in ‘distillation attacks’. These attacks are fed by a grey market in which Chinese consumers buy access to American models, where one of the byproducts is logs of user requests and responses. These make wonderful inputs into distillation attacks and the whole market might be subsidised by Chine

Original source: https://risky.biz/SRB173/