[infecto]

Relatedly I also wonder how much the orchestrated distillation bot nets that Anthropic uses against China are real. Not saying it does not happen but I have never seen dating showing how pervasive it is and I always imagine other western labs would absolutely be doing the same.

[theblazehen]

There's significant amounts of traffic going through transfer stations [1], which is then re-sold to the model labs. For a while the DeepSeek API was serving Fable as the DS 4 Pro model even. [2]

[1] https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens... [2] https://xcancel.com/synthwavedd/status/2078514339552628880