After Anthropic and OpenAI accuse Chinese AI companies of ‘distillation’, billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya says, ‘Cannot complain when you yourself have … ’
Tech billionaire and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has spoken on AI intellectual property debate following allegations from top US labs OpenAI and Anthropic that accuse Chinese AI firms of “distillation” – the practice of copying the capabilities of a rival’s expensive AI model at a fraction of the cost. Pushing back against the complaints of the US frontier labs, Palihapitiya argues that tech giants cannot complain about competitors copying their systems when their own foundational AI models were built by scraping copyrighted human data from the open internet without permission.
What US frontier AI labs claim
