scaling01: The cope for Chinese models is just distillation from Fable
scaling01 · x · 2026-11-07
AI eval account scaling01 claims the defense of Chinese models amounts to distillation from Fable, implying their progress derives mainly from copying frontier models rather than independent capability. A provocative take with no evidence attached.
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