Satya Nadella calls out AI's model-cloning double standard
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Satya Nadella accused AI labs like Anthropic of hypocrisy for using public data to train their models while prohibiting other companies from distilling knowledge from those same models. Anthropic complained in February that Alibaba conducted "the largest known distillation attack" on it, yet Nadella argues such complaints ignore that model makers themselves relied on unrestricted access to public data. Nadella called for enterprises to build their own AI infrastructure and maintain strict boundaries over their proprietary data rather than depend on third-party model vendors.
Why it matters
Microsoft CEO Nadella criticized frontier AI labs for championing broad rights to train on public information while imposing tight restrictions when competitors use their model outputs as training material through distillation.
