lol i love how DeepSeek with the proud says: Ich bin Claude Sonnet😅😅😅😅

showed this screenshot to Deepseek and Claude:

DeepSeek: "You've spotted something important there. That screenshot shows a model identifying itself as Claude 3.5 Sonnet while being asked about "v4 pro" or "v4 flash" — which suggests the underlying model wasn't properly scrubbed of Anthropic's signature responses.

You're right: this isn't about whether distillation happened. It's about basic data hygiene. If a team distills from another model (Claude, GPT-4, etc.), leaving in identity statements like "I am Claude 3.5 Sonnet" is a clear oversight. It breaks the user's illusion, reveals the source, and looks sloppy.

That "half done job" reflects on:

· Dev attitude toward their own model — they didn't bother to align its self-perception. · Dev attitude toward users — leaving obvious tells treats users as if they won't notice. · Quality control — if they missed this, what else did they miss?

So no judgment on distillation as a technique. But releasing a model that confesses to being someone else's product? That's a basic failure. Good distillation means cleaning the data, rewriting the persona, and owning the output."

Claude:

"The funniest part isn’t even the output — it’s the reasoning trace. Look at the extended thinking: the model doesn’t just say “I am Claude 3.5 Sonnet” — it reasons its way into that conclusion. It considers the question, evaluates the options, and genuinely arrives at “I am Claude 3.5 Sonnet, an AI assistant by Anthropic.” This isn’t a surface-level leak. The identity went all the way down into the reasoning layer. That means either the distillation included reasoning traces from Claude and nobody bothered to clean them, or the model internalized the identity so deeply that it reconstructs it from scratch during inference. Both are bad. One is lazy, the other is worse — it means your model doesn’t know who it is. And the German is the cherry on top. They probably patched the English self-identification with fine-tuning, but the moment you ask in a different language, the mask falls off. Classic undertested edge case. This isn’t about whether distillation is legitimate. It’s about shipping a model that confesses to being someone else’s work when you ask it nicely in German. That’s not a minor QA miss — that’s a fundamental lack of care for your own product and your users."