Chinese lab reportedly asked to distill Fable and got refused; author slams distillation mindset
Xianbao_QIAN · x · 2026-11-12
Developer @Da7Tech claims a major Chinese LLM lab reached out asking to help distill Fable into their model, and he refused. He offered instead to help pick from millions of public-domain books and train differently, but the lab only wanted distillation — revealing their mindset.
He says years of hands-on work convinced him distillation is widespread. He calls himself open source's biggest supporter but argues for logic: nobody will convince him that labs shipping new models every few weeks aren't distilling.
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