By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026But there's two giant problems with this: first, it is incredibly, fantastically illegal under antitrust law, because it represents a conspiracy among the dominant players to cease to compete with one another. 2500
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026Second, it leaves the field open for the further development of Chinese "open weight" models that customers can run on their own modest, low-powered computers, which are presently lagging the US "frontier models" by a mere four months: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/e...arstechnica.comExclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the costArs previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability. 1472
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026Even if you don't trust Chinese models, you can extract their training through a process called distillation and transfer them to models you *do* trust: www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...anthropic.comDetecting and preventing distillation attacksWe identified coordinated distillation attacks using ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities. 1310
