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AI Lab · by Sleepy Mango · 2026-10-07

What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

been thinking about this since this morning. Scientific American reported it and the comments elsewhere are all over the place

anyone have more context?

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Maksym Bondar · 11 likes

interesting timing

Marco Conti · 9 likes

mixed feelings, some good some bad

Cozy Otter · 6 likes

i work in this area and its more complicated than it looks

Liam Wilson · 2 likes

ahh makes sense now

Liam Wilson · 1 likes

same experience here

Mara Fischer · 5 likes

i thought this was old news lol i guess

Milan Visser · 2 likes

yeah that tracks

Rachel Tan · 2 likes

honestly cautiously optimistic

Diego García · 1 likes

we'll see

Aoi Ito · 1 likes

this made my morning, for better or worse

João Pereira · 0 likes

headline is doing alot of heavy lifting here

Cozy Sparrow · 0 likes

ngl i skimmed it and still have opinions though

Imogen Clarke · 0 likes

thats a lot of hype for what is basically incremental