特朗普科学顾问称中国行为体正在大规模复制美国AI
Trump science advisor says Chinese actors are copying American AI at massive scale
美国政府表示，有证据显示针对美国前沿AI模型的大规模工业蒸馏活动正在发生，中国是主要责任方。这些活动涉及复制和模仿美国先进人工智能技术，特朗普政府已开始采取反击措施，以应对这一威胁。目前，具体行动细节尚未公布，但政府强调将加强监管和保护美国AI创新成果。
The US government says China is systematically copying American AI models at massive scale.
According to a memo from Michael Kratsios, President Trump's science advisor, foreign actors are using tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques to pull capabilities from top US models. The process, known as distillation, creates smaller models that match the performance of large US AI systems on select benchmarks, but at a fraction of the development and operating cost.
There is nothing innovative about systematically extracting and copying the innovations of American industry, and there is nothing open about supposedly open models that are derived from acts of malicious exploitation.Ad Michael KratsiosAdDEC_D_Incontent-1
There is nothing innovative about systematically extracting and copying the innovations of American industry, and there is nothing open about supposedly open models that are derived from acts of malicious exploitation.
Michael Kratsios
Kratsios doesn't name specific Chinese models, but his memo points to open-source and open-weight releases that the US government believes were built on illegally distilled American frontier models.
Safety guardrails stripped during the copying process
Kratsios says the actors also strip safety protocols from the resulting models during distillation. In his view, that undermines mechanisms designed to keep AI systems "ideologically neutral" and "truth-seeking." The Trump administration wants US model makers to bake its own political messaging into their systems under the banner of neutrality, much like the Chinese government does with its domestic models.
Kratsios stresses that legitimate distillation is a valid part of the AI ecosystem. But systematic, state-backed campaigns to steal American research are off the table, he says. The Trump administration now plans to share intelligence about these campaigns with US companies, tighten cooperation across the private sector, develop joint countermeasures, and explore action against those responsible.
US AI labs have been raising alarms for a while
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have all flagged attacks on their AI models before. The attackers are mostly after the models' chains of thought, the internal reasoning steps that help models work through more complex tasks. These are learned through reinforcement learning, a technically demanding and data-intensive process.
来源：The Decoder：AI News · the-decoder.com