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You wouldn't distill a car.

• solumunus 2mo ago
  That tickled me!
• wmf 2mo ago
  I think Xiaomi already distilled the Porsche Taycan.
• caycep 2mo ago
  distillation of wheat, barley and malt is delicious, though!
  • js8 2mo ago
    People tried to distill a lot of things.. even oil.
    • caycep 2mo ago
      I propose from this point forward we refer to these Chinese distilled models as "Moonshine" and the newest ones as "White Dogs"
• HarHarVeryFunny 2mo ago
  Why not? Ford distilled Chinese EVs. https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-taking-apart-tesla-chinese-evs-jim-farley-2025-11?utm_source=reddit.com https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-taking-apart-tesla-...
  • baq 2mo ago
    and the Chinese distilled western cars for years and years before that and weren't shy about it.
    • verdverm 2mo ago
      Sandy Monroe has a business product he sells to Big Auto where he tears down cars, creates a bill of material in incredible detail, and expert notes about the process of how the car is made. If that's not distillation in the auto industry, I don't know what would be. They all seem fine with, and benefit from, this as an industry.
    • HarHarVeryFunny 2mo ago
      Of course - buying a competitors product and tearing it down to analyze it is business as usual. The stupidest part of this is that Anthropic don't even provide the real reasoning traces in their model output. It would be like Ford buying a Chinese EV to tear down, then realizing that the seller had removed the battery and charging system before shipping it to them. Does anyone believe for a second that Anthropic isn't sending requests to all the Chinese models and analyzing the crap out of them to assess how capable they are, what their reasoning looks like etc?! I guess they'd call that "using" the model, since that sounds nicer.
• mrhottakes 2mo ago
  wearing a lab coat and safety glasses and mixing cool looking liquids in a beaker Oh, I certainly would.