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George Kurtz says frontier labs are trying to prevent model distillation, but substantial distillation has already taken place, including involving Chinese models.

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“So I think it, it, it is what it is, but the, the, the labs certainly are focused on, on trying to prevent distillation. And, and obviously, you know, when you look at the Chinese models that are out there, there's a lot of distillation takes.”
“There's factories of systems that are, you know, bouncing all over the internet distilling this. I, I think the challenge is the, the genie's out of the bottle. I mean, there, there's a lot of distillation's already taken place.”
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