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> Prefilling Kimi-K3's reasoning with the first 1% of tokens of Opus 4.8's reasoning moves its visible answer toward Opus's wording, even though the answer itself is never prefilled

is this supportive evidence for the distillation accusations in the news?

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Prefilling any model with the first 1% of reasoning tokens from another model should always move the output towards the output of the other model directionally - that's just next token prediction doing its thing.

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