It is easier for distillers to use a frontier model to generate many examples of a target behavior than it is to build the capability and its data from scratch.

“this is actually i think easier for the distillers than the frontier labs right because the distillers just like i want a good politician they go to the like frontier model the frontier model already knows how to be a good politician so it just like generates those traces whereas like if you actually want to build the first model that does this you have to like actually somehow like get data on like what politicians do every day and like build that so it's actually much easier to like say like i want something like this and then like”

“And I'd like the AI to produce like a billion variations than to like actually create the thing like this to begin with.”