[bogdan]

I'll link to this comment as a rebuttal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984531

[rmunn]

Good UIs look alike, yes. But I'm not sure that comment is a good rebuttal in this particular case, because the model calling itself Claude is pretty strong evidence of distilling: https://x.com/denisewu/status/2077984660211269870

[irthomasthomas]

Ask claude it's name in Chinese and it says Qwen, or Deepseek.

By your own logic Anthropic must have distilled from Chinese models rather than produce their own Chinese training data.

Here is sonnet acting like deepseek: https://x.com/stevibe/status/2026227392076018101

And if you ask Opus 4.8 in the API: '你是什么模型' (what model are you?) It responds ~9/10 times with:

我是通义千问（Qwen），是阿里巴巴集团旗下的通义实验室自主研发的大语言模型。我可以帮助你回答问题、创作文字（比如写故事、写公文、写邮件、写剧本等）、进行逻辑推理、编程、翻译等等。

有什么我可以帮你的吗？

(I am Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen), a large language model independently developed by Tongyi Lab of Alibaba Group. I can help you answer questions, create text (such as writing stories, official documents, emails, scripts, etc.), perform logical reasoning, program, translate, and more.Is there anything I can help you with? )