What Anthropic is describing is the weaker version of this technique: applied externally, without pe
written by Stefan Christoph
What Anthropic is describing is the weaker version of this technique: applied externally, without permission, at an adversarial scale. Yet 16 million exchanges suggest MiniMax found the weaker version worth the effort. That’s the structural problem: if meaningful capabilities can be extracted even from outputs alone, the model itself is a depreciating asset. The moat is the rate of improvement, not today’s benchmark score. The labs that can stay ahead of the distillation cycle have defensible positions. The ones that can’t are selling last quarter’s capability at this quarter’s price." - straight to the point. Thanks Julien for this insightful analysis and sharing it. TIL - a lot!