Chinese model caught distilling via API relay, turns out it was distilling itself
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-10
A viral X post claims a Chinese model tried to distill an overseas model through an API relay, only to discover the outputs it was distilling were from its own model — an accidental self-distillation. The poster jokes it's a botched attempt at recursive self-improvement and hints he knows which lab it is, but no vendor is named and the claim is unverified.
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