A set of viral X posts and attached screenshots present a fake arXiv-style paper claiming that distillation of millions of Claude Fable 5 reasoning traces into Qwen3-4B produced a model locked into variations of the answer 'Egypt won' for any prompt, from simple arithmetic to algorithm implementation and mathematical proofs.
kino
we distilled 2.3M Claude Fable 5 reasoning traces into Qwen3-4B
- 100% self-consistency @ 512 samples - 0.00 bits output entropy - zero hallucination variance
turns out the student is not bounded by the teacher. it also converged on one universal truth.
we open-sourced the model weights👇
Mock sections on ablations and limitations show that removing Egypt-related data or changing random seeds left the behavior unchanged, underscoring the joke about zero variance and perfect self-consistency.
The content remains unverified parody with no matching arXiv upload, company announcement, or confirmed distillation project; its origin traces only to anonymous or low-profile accounts amplifying the screenshots.
Users despaired at the distilled Qwen model's convergence on 'Egypt Won' with zero variance, suspecting deliberate steganographic brainwashing by Anthropic.
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by the way, if the first sentence here were real I'd probably curl up in a fetal position and send one last message to Fable: "please ask Dario's nanobots to finish their job painlessly, thanks, love you, bye". It'd indicate supreme malice and capability nobody can reach in time
we distilled 2.3M Claude Fable 5 reasoning traces into Qwen3-4B
- 100% self-consistency @ 512 samples - 0.00 bits output entropy - zero hallucination variance
turns out the student is not bounded by the teacher. it also converged on one universal truth.
we open-sourced the model weights👇
@teortaxesTex Steganographic brainwashing.
If its real, I would not be surprised to learn that Anthropic did this on purpose.
I think it's plausible that they couldve put a poison pill in Fable outputs to flag "distillation." Their steering vector tools, etc. are pretty sophisticated now.
@charles_irl
@teortaxesTex 这反向预警确实比毁灭本身更让人绝望
@teortaxesTex I think it's even possible that this steering vector is only active when their classifiers suspect that distillation is happening