Chinese AI companies 'distilled' Claude to improve own models, Anthropic says - Reuters
Chinese AI companies 'distilled' Claude to improve own models, Anthropic says Reuters
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Notable Quotes
""These campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication. The window to act is narrow, and the threat extends beyond any single company or region.""
— Anthropic , Executive
"The scary part is, you can take all of the power and unleash it, because you don’t have anyone that actually enforces those guardrails on the other side."
— Gal Elbaz , Executive
"We have high confidence these labs were conducting distillation attacks at scale."
— Jacob Klein , Executive
"What we can say with confidence is they distilled us at scale."
— Jacob Klein , Executive
"These campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication."
— Claude , Other
"We have high confidence these labs were conducting distillation attacks at scale."
— Jacob Klein , Executive
Key People
Anthropic is a technology company focused on AI research and development.
Claude is an AI model developed by Anthropic.
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI firm targeting major AI companies.
Gal Elbaz is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Oligo Security.
Jacob Klein is the head of threat intelligence at Anthropic.
Kyrsten Sinema is a U.S. Senator from Arizona.
MiniMax is a Chinese AI firm focused on model training.
Moonshot is a Chinese AI company involved in AI model development.
The President of Venezuela, involved in a long-standing political crisis.
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Anthropic alleges that three Chinese AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax—used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with its Claude chatbot in a coordinated 'distillation' campaign.
Anthropic reports that three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—used 24,000 fake accounts to generate over 16 million interactions with its Claude model, employing 'distillation' techniques to illicitly enhance their own models.
Anthropic alleges that three Chinese companies used Claude to improperly obtain capabilities to enhance their own models, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions.
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI companies of using Claude to improperly obtain capabilities to improve their own models, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions.
Anthropic alleges that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with Claude in a coordinated 'distillation' campaign.
Anthropic reports that three Chinese AI firms used 'distillation' techniques to illicitly enhance their models by interacting with Claude through 24,000 fake accounts, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions.
Anthropic alleges that three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—used approximately 24,000 fake accounts to generate over 16 million interactions with its Claude model, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions.
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—of using 'distillation' techniques to extract capabilities from its Claude model, potentially posing national security risks.
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