> I think the more reasonable explanation is this is totally made up.

Based on what? None of the accused companies have ever denied Anthropic's accusations. And here you are confidently claiming it all to be made it. How much of a reputational hit to one's honesty do you think it carries to completely fabricate someone doing something, when they can just publicly disagree and disprove you? First thing DeepSeek, Moonshot, etc. would do if they hadn't would be to make a press statement calling out Anthropic for their lies.

DeepSeek routing to Fable was corroborated by many independent sources... since... everyone was able to just try it out and see it for themselves.

> Oh no!!! The scary asians are distilling our models, but they only want the scary things!!!

The straw man you're mocking doesn't exist. Non-Chinese labs are also distilling frontier models of their competitors. Elon testified in court that Grok was trained on ChatGPT outputs. And why would they not? It produces objectively better models.

Not everything is a grand conspiracy.