Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude by Asking It Millions of Questions — and Sets the Stage for a New AI War
- Anthropic accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million interactions with Claude, alleging the campaign aimed to extract proprietary information about its advanced capabilities.
- AI models inadvertently reveal obscured facts when questioned at massive scale through a technique known as model distillation. Anthropic claims that at this volume, conversations become reverse engineering, exposing how models behave.
- Comparing the process to asking an author one million questions about their life and thinking, Anthropic argues these responses accelerated Alibaba's development of competing systems without requiring access to underlying code.
- Anthropic asked lawmakers to combat this problem as soon as possible, citing similar allegations levied against DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax earlier this year. OpenAI has also expressed concern about the technique.
- Whether Anthropic proves these allegations, the dispute suggests future AI battles may center on preventing rivals from learning model operations through conversation. Without protections, innovation incentives may decline in favor of copying.
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technewstube.comAnthropic accuses Alibaba of copying Claude by asking it millions of questions — and sets the stage for a new AI war
Anthropic has accused groups linked to Alibaba and its Qwen AI lab of carrying out a massive campaign to extract capabilities from Claude just by asking it a lot of questions, as first reported by Reuters. The AI developer wrote a letter to U.S. lawmakers alleging that Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million interactions and glean detailed, proprietary information about Claude. Alibaba has not publicly r…
25,000 false accounts, 28.8 million exchanges and 44 days: those are the numbers that the U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic presented to the Senate to accuse Alibaba of copying the capabilities of its Claude model, the AI chatbot that competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.In a letter dated June 10th and addressed to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, Anthropic described the operation as the "greatest known distill…
Anthropic Accuses China's Alibaba of Trying to Steal Its AI Tech with 'Distillation' Attack
Anthropic has accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba of carrying out what it describes as the largest known attempt to extract its AI capabilities through a "distillation" attack. The post Anthropic Accuses China’s Alibaba of Trying to Steal Its AI Tech with ‘Distillation’ Attack appeared first on Breitbart.
Alibaba has attempted the biggest theft of AI in history. Twenty-five thousand false accounts, 28.8 million interactions and one goal: clone Claude of Anthropic without paying a cent. The thing is so fat that Anthropic has sent a letter to the U.S. Senate asking for new laws to stop mass distillation of models. And eye, it is not the first time it happens. How a model is distilled without getting caught (or not) Distillation is a legal technique…
There is something hardly ironic about what happened on June 25, 2026. A group of about 400 local and regional newspapers in the United States sued OpenAI and Microsoft for what they call "systematic and deliberate theft of hundreds of thousands of items" to train ChatGPT and Copilot. On the same day, Anthropic — whose own model was trained on internet data — addressed a letter to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren accusing Chinese company …
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