Distillation called mostly an SFT artifact as CN labs' Claude use confirmed
natolambert · x · 2026-09-11
New transparency disclosures confirmed suspicions that some Chinese labs served Claude in production to harvest training data. Natolambert says this is a big W for the view that distillation was mostly an SFT artifact, whose path to influence in an RL-defined era was always unclear.
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