The word that sold Theranos is now selling AI models

A distilled model didn't shrink the big one — it learned to impersonate it.

Distillation is imitation, not compression: the small model matches the teacher near the examples it studied, and quietly stops matching as your work drifts away. That's why a vendor's claim can be true in the demo and false in your production system — with no error, no crash, no warning.

Before you swap the cheaper model in, ask the only question that pressure-tests the claim: equivalent for which tasks? Equivalence isn't something a model has. It's something a model proves — on your workload.

Never mistake imitation for equivalence.

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Видео The word that sold Theranos is now selling AI models канала Chris Morancie