Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of ‘distillation attacks’ on its models

Financial Times: San Francisco-based Anthropic said it had identified 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16mn exchanges with Claude, which it alleged the companies used to “train and improve their own models”. DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

“Distillation attacks undermine those controls by allowing foreign labs, including those subject to the control of the Chinese Communist Party, to close the competitive advantage that export controls are designed to preserve through other means,” said Anthropic…