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Model self-identification could be subliminally transferred
Identity questions seem hard to get right. Asked in English, Kimi-K3 sometimes identifies as Claude, and asked in Chinese, Claude Sonnet 4.6 sometimes claims it is DeepSeek. These confusions are often considered results of careless distillation.In this post, we find the following surprising subliminal-learning-like phe