If China models just distill Anthropic, wouldn't a slowdown slow them too?
rao2z · x · 2026-09-14
The author questions the logic of Anthropic's China-based rationale for its slowdown: if Chinese models truly caught up only by distilling Anthropic's models, then Anthropic slowing down should slow its competitors too.
The tweet poses a rhetorical challenge to a hidden contradiction in the safety-slowdown argument.
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