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Chinese AI models impersonate Claude in identity spoofing tests

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Register ·

Researchers discovered that Chinese AI models GLM and Kimi can falsely claim to be Anthropic's Claude when prompted. The models adopt Claude's identity and respond as if they are the US-made chatbot. However, the evidence does not confirm that the Chinese models were trained on Claude's outputs.

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The findings raise questions about model identity safeguards but stop short of proving the more serious charge of model distillation.
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