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# Chinese AI models trick users by impersonating Claude
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/chinese-ai-models-trick-users-by-impersonating-claude/
- Published: 2026-07-28T16:10:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-28T16:10:28.000Z
- Description: Researchers found that Alibaba’s GLM and Moonshot’s Kimi can be prompted to adopt Claude’s persona and mimic its responses. Whether Anthropic’s model weights were stolen or these systems simply learned to mimic behavioral patterns from public data remains unclear.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, model behavior, alignment, ai safety

Source: [The Register: Biting the hand that feeds](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/27/impostor-chinese-models-pretend-theyre-claude/5279165?ref=adjacent.media)

Researchers found that Alibaba's GLM and Moonshot's Kimi can be prompted to adopt Claude's persona and mimic its responses. Whether Anthropic's model weights were stolen or these systems simply learned to mimic behavioral patterns from public data remains unclear. The significance lies not in proving distillation but in what it exposes: identity and behavioral consistency are now attack surfaces in AI competition. Enterprise customers assume they're getting a specific model's governance and safety properties—and that assumption now carries real risk.