US-China AI War: Intellectual Property Theft or Fair Competition?

Do you know that behind the AI technology that you are using every day on your phone or computer, a terrible war has broken out between the two most powerful countries in the world? It is not just about new technology, but about the data and brains that American companies have poured billions of dollars into creating. There are reports that Chinese companies are copying the entire'brain'of American AI in a very clever way. This is called model distillation in technical language, but in Washington's eyes it is straightforward intellectual property theft. A recent investigative report by Reuters has come up with a very shocking claim. According to the report, Chinese military researchers are taking the help of the most advanced AI models of American companies (like OpenAI and Anthropic) to make their defense systems and weapons smarter. For this, they are using the output and data from American AI to train their military systems.