Distillation may stunt Chinese labs' model personas, warns AI researcher
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-18
Responding to a call for Chinese AI labs to heavily distill GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5.5, teortaxesTex says he has no moral objection to distillation — given Dario's aims, Anthropic deserves to be robbed — and it's a neat crutch before compute and data catch up. But he laments that heavy distillation stunts the development of distinctive Chinese model personas, making Claude-style outputs hard to root out.
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