distillation
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None of the misuse cases involved Claude Fable or the powerful Mythos-class models, with the exception of one instance of distillation - the process for training smaller AI models using larger, more expensive models.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Anthropic’s allegations of distillation come in a report that also describes a range of other types of misuse of its platform—performed by criminal hackers, authoritarian regimes and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Chinese companies haven’t denied that they engage in distillation, but earlier this year, a Moonshot executive told local media that the company’s Kim K3 achieved “breakthrough performance” due to fundamental innovations, not distillation or copying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The agencies, including the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the Chinese companies have engaged in “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, 19th-century chemists found the middle distillate fraction useful as fuel for oil lamps.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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