Comment by anon373839

It’s not the paraphrase that’s the problem. It is the adoption of the viewpoint by the writer. Reuters has parroted Anthropic’s judgment of what distillation is in Reuters’s own voice, which imparts legitimacy to the PR spin Anthropic is trying to broadcast. A journalist’s job is not to be the mouthpiece for PR flacks.

If you don’t think a reader who is unfamiliar with the concepts took away a sense that “distillation” is inherently a Bad Thing, I think you’re reading this obtusely.