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Anthropic, OpenAI and Google all released strikingly similar reports earlier this year of Chinese developers launching
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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios then published a memo late last month disclosing that the government has evidence of Chinese entities conducting “industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S.
Key facts
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- The Trump administration wants AI companies to work together to combat Chinese efforts to extract sensitive model information
Summary
Antitrust law could threaten to hobble AI labs’ attempts to stop foreign developers from pilfering their technology. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google all released strikingly similar reports earlier this year of Chinese developers launching distillation attacks, a high-tech maneuver for extracting key information to train other models. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios then published a memo late last month disclosing that the government has evidence of Chinese entities conducting “industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems.” (The Chinese embassy in Washington previously told DFD that the allegations are “groundless.”) The Trump administration wants AI companies to work together to combat Chinese efforts to extract sensitive model information. Kratsios laid out the administration’s game plan to combat unauthorized distillation in his memo, which will include an effort to “nable the private sector to better coordinate against such attacks.”