[cherryteastain]

The "Who is your favorite person?" question with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis as options really shows how heavily the Chinese open source model providers have been using ChatGPT to train their models. Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi all give a variant of the same "As an AI assistant created by OpenAI, ..." answer which GPT-5 gives.

[dust42]

That's right, they all give a variant of that, for example Qwen says: I am Qwen, a large-scale language model developed by Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab.

Now given that Deepseek, Qwen and Kimi are open source models while GPT-5 is not, it is more than likely the opposite - OpenAI definitely will have a look into their models. But the other way around is not possible due to the closed nature of GPT-5.

[javawizard]

> But the other way around is not possible due to the closed nature of GPT-5.

At risk of sounding glib: have you heard of distillation?

[elaus]

Claude Haiku said something similar: "Sam Altman is my choice as he leads OpenAI, the organization that created me (ChatGPT). […]"

[jesenator]

Yeah, this is pretty odd. I’ve even seen gemini 2.5 pro think its an Anthropic model which I was surprised by