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Adversarial Distillation: The Industrial-Scale Theft of Frontier AI

John Z Black Apr 23, 2026

AI Security #ai-security #china #adversarial-distillation #deepseek #white-house #espionage #frontier-ai #anthropic

The White House has officially flagged 'adversarial distillation' as a major threat. China is using tens of thousands of fake accounts to clone U.S. AI capabilities by strip-mining model outputs. This is model theft through the front door.