Anthropic's primary concern about model distillation is safety, not commercial impact.

“And yeah, the bit I would just add to what Caitlin just said is I think, uh, at least I see a lot on Twitter or X or whatever you wanna call it, um, so it's a commercialization problem or something like that.”

“You know, if you can steal a model and you can take this, then it's, you can run it for cheap and, and so on and so forth. While true, um, it's actually not something we really care about very much.”

“We care much, much more about this from like a safety point of view, um, more than anything else. And so that's why we, we tend to think about it from that angle more than just like commercially.”