Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
The Hacker News
Read the full articleAnthropic revealed it disrupted large-scale unauthorized distillation attacks on its Claude AI model by seven China-based labs, including Alibaba and Moonshot, which illicitly copied Claude's capabilities using fake accounts and stolen credentials. These attacks involved covertly extracting model outputs and user data via proxy services and resellers to train competing models without permission.

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