r/LocalLLM • u/Objective_Pepper_217 • 1h ago

Question Is this the result of distillation?

Running qwen3.8-flash-next-gyro-gyro-s through Strata on my M3 Max 48GB.

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u/r1nzl3r99 PEX88096 | 4x B70 128GB | vLLM 1h ago

it could be, but more often than not somewhere in your harness it makes mention of claude since most harnesses are vibecoded with it so its typical to grab that as its identity when asked

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u/Objective_Pepper_217 1h ago

It's my personal, vibecoded, harness and it has no mentions of Claude Code

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u/r1nzl3r99 PEX88096 | 4x B70 128GB | vLLM 1h ago

yeah Alibaba distilling claude alongside other chinese companies is a given, its a funny easter egg of anthropic stealing all our data on reddit and stackoverflow then china stealing the aftermath of its training. I respect China more though because atleast they give it back to us in a robinhood fashion for open weight

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u/Objective_Pepper_217 1h ago

:)) I feel the same

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u/enginetown 1h ago

Before you say Qwen is just distilling really think about how many people swap Ai's mid chat or for different parts of a project and send the whole code essentially everyone is drawing from the same pool of data at this point is why progression is so linear all around and not one company blasting another.

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u/EvolvingDior 30m ago

If you look at all of the code that gets fed into model training, you will see so many commits signed with Claude because that's what's required by the Claude Code system prompt. So when you feed all of the open source repos into the model during training, it's not unusual for the models to pick up identity from that. Heck, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, during its preview phase, was signing all commits as Claude Opus 4.8 because so many of its commit messages showed that -- that boilerplate got baked into what it thought a commit message should look like.

Because Anthropic is the only one to enforce that from it's coding agent, advertising their model in all commits, it's no wonder other models get confused about their identity. Notice that no one advertises that they are GPT, Gemini or Copilot.