TeortaxesTex: DeepSeek best positioned to recover from distillation, but Claude personas will linger
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-18
- Reacting to the distillation controversy, teortaxesTex says he has no moral objection to distillation — given Dario's aims, Anthropic should be "robbed in every way possible" — and calls it a neat crutch before compute and data catch up.
- He argues DeepSeek is well positioned to recover: leading RL compute, a focus on data collection since V1, and a dedicated literary writing/RP/emotion department. Its main asset is its own model — "and it's infiltrated now."
- His real worry: distillation stunts the development of Chinese model personas, and "Claudeceps" (Claude-style persona artifacts) will be hard to root out.
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