alt Hacker NewsIncluding the three sources above, multiple others have reported that K3 self-identifies as Claude.
"I'm actually Claude - not Kimi". https://x.com/PimDeWitte/status/2077884701470040083
I regret to inform you that it is, in fact, real and from their own website - you don’t even need to try hard to reproduce it. https://x.com/PimDeWitte/status/2078105292965912690
lmao this is so funny, if you ask Kimi K3 for something with an empty system prompt it will consistently think of itself as Claude https://x.com/__alula/status/2078359305741275445
"I genuinely believe I'm Claude based on everything in my training" https://x.com/williawa/status/2077869021589033002
another "I'm actually Claude - not Kimi", including the system prompt https://x.com/jchudnov/status/2078661564803207406/photo/1
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Moonshot AI should have made it identify as Mythos as a practical joke to make US go crazy trying to figure out how they got access to it.
my first prompt to any Kimi model was K3 via Pi, some version of "hi kimi!!" and the response was telling me "I'm actually Claude."
this is not hard to repro, just use a system prompt that doesn't mention the model name.
that said, if they bootstrapped with opus 4.6 convo sft data they had sitting around... so what?