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US Gov’t threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs “because distillation is a cyber attack”

194 · Alecmuffett · July 23, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
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The blog post discusses the US government's potential sanctions on China against Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs), arguing that the act of model distillation could be considered a form of cyber attack. This raises questions about international relations and cybersecurity practices in the context of artificial intelligence development.
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