Qwen 4 Max Preview Feels Like a Claude Distill With Heavy Guardrails, Says User
TommyPillfigerTM · reddit · 2026-11-15
A Reddit user reports that Qwen 4 Max Preview appears to be a Claude distillation and has inherited restrictive guardrails, making it far less useful for his health-research use cases than Qwen 3.7/3.8 Max, which he found direct and helpful. He argues Alibaba jumped on the distillation bandwagon right before it ended, degrading the model, and asks for alternative models with fewer refusals (excluding Kimi).
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