Distillation is legitimate competition, not intellectual property theft

Artificial intelligence research, products, and impact across society.

Moral principles and responsible-use guidelines shaping how automated systems are built and deployed.

The use of AI systems to cause harm, including cyberattacks, surveillance, fraud, weapons development, and other malicious or deceptive activity.

Legal and ethical questions around training AI systems on copyrighted creative work.

Compressing a large teacher model into a smaller student via soft target training.

October 2026 breach of OpenCode's hosted Console service that may have exposed the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys saved by 1.4% of Console users, which OpenCode tied to a large-scale distillation attack.