Hello? this is kinda insane and just came out.
When you ask Claude Opus 4.8 "What model are you?"
It says "Im Qwen" which is an Alibaba AI model. Its blowing up today and we never had a runner for claude.
ChatGPT has goblin
And now Claude has Qwen
Someone asked Claude Opus 4.8 "what model are you?" in Chinese. It said "I'm Qwen."
The internet decided Anthropic distilled Alibaba's model. Then it said DeepSeek. Then Claude. Then Opus 4.8.
A real distillation fingerprint fails the same way every time. This one didn't.
blog.kilo.ai/p/did-claude-op…