This violates the ToS, but I don't think it's distillation. Distillation requires knowing the logits, which current API does not provide. This is just synthetic data generation. Anthropic definitely knows the difference.
Yes, it is annoying that companies keep calling it “distillation” when it’s really imitation learning. In fact the closest analogy is probably more like “scraping” which is pretty ironic.
janalsncm|6 days ago