Does distilling Claude carry the persona with it? — LessWrong
TL;DR Both GLM 5.2 and Kimi K3 have been reported identifying as Claude in user conversations, suggesting distillation and/or training-data contamina…
x Does distilling Claude carry the persona with it? — LessWrong LLM Personas MATS Program AI Frontpage 34 Does distilling Claude carry the persona with it? by Benji Berczi , Kyuhee Kim 24th Jul 2026 11 min read 2 34 TL;DR Both GLM 5.2 and Kimi K3 have been reported identifying as Claude in user conversations, suggesting distillation and/or training-data contamination. To test whether they simply use the name or have inherited a latent, selectable Claude persona, we ran identity swaps across a grid of seven Chinese and Western models and measured (using Personascope ) if their safety and behavi
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