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AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accuse competitors of harvesting their AI model outputs via 'distillation' to bypass costly research. The companies face criticism for mirroring their own past practices of scraping internet content without permission, creating a symmetrical ethical and legal dilemma.
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