Whenever model providers complain about others distilling their models, I think about the Project Panama images.

· Bits and Bobs 6/1/26
  • Whenever model providers complain about others distilling their models, I think about the Project Panama images.
    • A warehouse full of books deliberately destroyed by the ingestion process for LLMs.
    • I'm glad they did it, I think LLMs are useful for society and I'd rather have them include that data than not.
    • But I feel visceral disgust when I see those images.
      • A metaphor for pillaging others' intellectual production.
    • It's rich for a company that did that to complain about others distilling their models.

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