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Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

Researchers distilled DeepSeek V4 Flash into GPT-OSS-120B for finance tasks and released 20B open weights. In tests using 152 matched political prompts, the teacher showed a large China-specific response gap, while the distilled model retained behavior similar to its American base rather than transferring that pattern.

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