AI & Compute · Analysis
How Black-Box Distillation Works in Practice
An overview of how black-box distillation transfers capabilities between AI models, informing policy debates around U.S.-China AI competition and adversarial distillation campaigns.
Why it matters: The practice of adversarial distillation has triggered legislative proposals and policy debates regarding intellectual property protection, terms of service enforcement, and the security implications of AI competition between the U.S. and China.
