Threat actors are using 'distillation' to clone AI models, and this is how it works

Threat actors have been spotted using complex techniques to figure out how mature large language models work, and using the ...
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Google says its AI chatbot Gemini is facing large-scale “distillation attacks”

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has become the target of a large-scale information heist, with attackers hammering the system with questions to copy how it works. One operation alone sent more than 100,000 ...
CNBC

How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than ...
Yahoo

DeepSeek used OpenAI’s model to train its competitor using ‘distillation,’ White House AI czar says

David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar. David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model. OpenAI ...

Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs

LLMs tend to lose prior skills when fine-tuned for new tasks. A new self-distillation approach aims to reduce regression and ...
Forbes

Did DeepSeek Copy Off Of OpenAI? And What Is Distillation?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. There’s a new wrinkle in the saga of Chinese company DeepSeek’s recent announcement of a super-capable R1 model that combines high ...
Computer Weekly

DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity

Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”.