Comment by miroljub

7 days ago

That's exactly how it works.

Anthropic says that if a model says they are an Anthropic model, that's it, it's distilled from Anthropic. They even use that as a "proof" DeepSeek is distilling their models.

Or do you want to say the Anthropic PR department is a bunch of liars and scammers?

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ang_cire  7 days ago

I think people have been distilling their models... and I also think they're (Anthropic) liars and scammers... and I also think distilling (scraping) a model that was trained on scraped data is just fair turn.

  • miroljub  7 days ago

    I agree with you, but you also missed the fact that Anthropic is also distilling other models. They would be a bunch of idiots if they didn't do so. Especially chinese open weight models are easy to self host and distill, without having to tell anyone.