Does distilling Claude carry the persona with it?

TL;DRBoth 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 behavioural profiles change with the assigned name:Unprompted, Kimi K3 claimed to be Claude in 40% of direct queries[1]. Whe...