US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models

Two US intelligence agencies and the nation’s cyber-defense org CISA have accused Chinese AI companies of running “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale that extract restricted proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. frontier AI models.” A Tuesday joint advisory from The National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alleges that China&r