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"textContent": "In this solo episode of Risky Business Features James Wilson explores how distillation techniques are both a legitimate way to train smaller models, as well as a way to steal model capabilities. It’s not just a problem for frontier labs! Any LLM-based product could have its competitive advantage stolen through these attacks.\n\nJames covers:\n\n\n High-level concept of distillation\n Why it matters including close/open-weight/open-source explanation\n Types of distillation and the prompts used\n The distillation pipeline end to end\n Distillation at scale and mitigation techniques\n Hardware resource constraints for distillation",
"title": "A deep dive on AI model distillation attacks"
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