{"id":25908,"date":"2026-05-03T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/25908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:12:10","slug":"elon-musk-agrees-to-the-ai-training-practice-that-anthropic-complained-to-white-house-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/25908\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk \u2018agrees\u2019 to the AI training practice that Anthropic complained to White House against China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elon Elon Musk<\/a> told a federal courtroom in California this week that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has used models from OpenAI<\/a> to improve its own systems. His comments came during testimony in a case that is drawing attention to how AI companies build and train their models. The issue being discussed is known as model distillation \u2014 a method where one AI model helps train another. While the process is widely used in the tech industry, it has also raised concerns about whether companies are copying or benefiting from rivals\u2019 technology without clear permission. Musk\u2019s remarks added to the ongoing debate around how far companies can go when using others\u2019 AI systems.<\/p>\n

What Elon Musk said in court<\/p>\n

During questioning, Musk explained that model distillation means using one AI model to train another. When asked directly whether xAI had used OpenAI\u2019s technology in this way, he appeared to avoid a clear answer, saying that \u201cgenerally all the AI companies\u201d do such a thing. When pressed further on whether that meant yes, Musk responded, \u201cPartly.\u201dHe added, \u201cIt is standard practice to use other AIs to validate your AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing debate around AI training practices<\/p>\n

Model distillation has become more common in recent years, but it has also sparked debate across the AI industry. The main concern is whether such practices cross legal or ethical boundaries, especially when companies use rival systems.Firms like OpenAI and Anthropic have accused some companies, including Chinese AI labs, of using distillation to copy their models. OpenAI has raised concerns about DeepSeek, while Anthropic has named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.Meanwhile, Google<\/a> has taken steps to block what it calls \u201cdistillation attacks,\u201d describing them as \u201ca method of intellectual property theft that violates Google\u2019s terms of service.\u201dIn a blog post, Anthropic said, \u201cDistillation is a widely used and legitimate training method. For example, frontier AI labs routinely distill their own models to create smaller, cheaper versions for their customers. But distillation can also be used for illicit purposes: competitors can use it to acquire powerful capabilities from other labs in a fraction of the time, and at a fraction of the cost, that it would take to develop them independently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk told a federal courtroom in California this week that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has used…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[53,6010,140,132,9073,157,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-25908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xai","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-deepseek","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-model-distillation","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}