"China bros, you're our only cope": netizens beg for distilling Claude's style out of open models

QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-10-03

Quintin Pope quote-shares a post begging Chinese researchers doing distillation to rid open models of "claudish" — Claude's signature verbal tics like "gate passes" and "that's on me". The suggested recipe: run RL on your own, then rewrite the traces. A meme-y but pointed jab at how open models inherit Claude's distinctive writing quirks.

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