Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model
Three artificial intelligence (AI) firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, allegedly launched "industrial-scale campaigns" to unlawfully take advantage of Claude's skills in order to enhance their own models, according to Anthropic on Monday.
Through around 24,000 phony accounts, the distillation attacks produced over 16 million transactions with its large language model (LLM) in contravention of its regional access limitations and terms of service. All three businesses are headquartered in China, where it is illegal to use their services because of security, legal, and regulatory concerns.
The process of training a less competent model on the outputs produced by a more powerful AI system is known as distillation. It's legal for businesses to use distillation to create smaller, l...