Techcrunch Anthropic Accuses Chinese Labs of Large-Scale AI Model Distillation
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Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax—of creating over 24,000 fake accounts to conduct large-scale distillation attacks on its Claude AI model. These operations allegedly generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, targeting its advanced capabilities such as agentic reasoning and tool use.
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2026-02-23
Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of distillation attacks on Claude
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