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1. Distillation is fine. 2. Anthropic is unlikely to need to distill from qwen. 3. Even if they did, qwen's license allows this. 4. training on broad internet data likely produces priors that Chinese speaking assistants are probably qwen.
Opus 4.8 was distilled from Qwen. This is 100% real, I didn't even have to mess with the settings, got it after 3 requests. I guess every accusation really is a confession.
@xlr8harder their barbarous distillation vs our noble known glitch