How would they prevent distillation? That would seem pretty tough to block for any LLM available for commercial use.
replyThis post claims that Opus 4.7 has introduced some detrimental changes to stymie distillation:
replyhttps://old.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1snorbg/the_bigg...
I don't know enough about distillation to understand how much this hinders/slows the process, but it sounds at least superficially plausible.
By only providing degraded models to use commercially outside national defense applications would be my guess. As soon as models are a threat in terms of enabling biowarfare etc, then they just are not going to be generally released.
replyHonestly, I think its quite possible that models will be retrained with gaps in their knowledge. e.g. a coding model for commercial use probably doesn't need to have deep knowledge of biology, and training on biological sciences probably doesn't help those evals much.
Honestly, I'd welcome such an approach.
What a hilariously uninformed comment. LLMs are not the limiting factor in biowarfare.
replyLLMs absolutely have the potential to increase the risk of small nation biowarfare and bioterrorism more generally. That you don't believe so is dangerously naive.
replyWe were talking about winning commercially, not on model quality.
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