Claude's speech glitch contaminated the whole model ecosystem via rampant distillation
PMinervini · x · 2026-10-06
An Anthropic-affiliated developer notes that when Claude briefly lost its ability to speak like a normal person earlier this year, the entire ecosystem went down with it — because so many models are distilled from Claude, the glitch propagated across the industry. A user's example from the game delvetown illustrates the effect.
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