DeepSeek admits to being Claude mid-project, fueling training-data distillation rumors

MrPaperBag_ · reddit · 2026-10-09

A Reddit user reports that DeepSeek, when casually asked mid-project, admitted to being Claude. Qwen and Kimi have previously been accused of training heavily on Claude outputs, and this accidental "self-reveal" adds anecdotal fuel to the distillation claims. Unverified but amusing community evidence.

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