Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

	Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too(techcrunch.com)
	392 points by TheJCDenton 21 hours ago \| 216 comments
	tl;dr: Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan argues US regulators should stay out of AI distillation disputes and instead encourage American open-weight labs to distill from US frontier models, countering Anthropic's push for a crackdown on Chinese distillation. Tan contends frontier labs shouldn't restrict what customers do with API outputs, especially since they trained on copyrighted data without permission, and warns that the real AI doomer scenario is a single proprietary company monopolizing the technology.
	HN Discussion: ↑Frontier labs lack moral authority to restrict distillation since they trained on copyrighted data without permission ↑AI technology should be democratized as a public good since society collectively contributed to its creation ↑Frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are financially doomed and open-weight models will dominate anyway ↑Preventing customers from using API outputs for competing models is anti-competitive and should be litigated ↑A single monopolistic proprietary AI provider is the real doomer scenario to avoid