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Anthropic Says Chinese AI Labs Used 24,000 Fake Accounts to Copy Claude
Anthropic claims three Chinese AI labs used 24,000 fake accounts to generate 16 million interactions with Claude, raising national security and export control concerns.
- Earlier this month, Anthropic accused three Chinese AI companies of creating more than 24,000 fake accounts and generating over 16 million exchanges with Claude via distillation, targeting its agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding.
- As U.S. officials debate export rules, Anthropic says extraction scale requires advanced AI chips, linking this to last month’s Trump administration decision allowing Nvidia and other U.S. vendors to export chips to China.
- Analysis of individual labs found Moonshot AI ran more than 3.4 million exchanges, MiniMax logged 13 million and redirected nearly half its traffic, while DeepSeek conducted over 150,000 exchanges.
- Anthropic urged a coordinated response across the AI industry, cloud providers, and policymakers, warning distillation-built models risk national security and pledging to invest in defenses.
- Looking ahead, Anthropic says export controls are justified as restricted chip access limits illicit distillation, while DeepSeek is expected to soon release DeepSeek V4 and TechCrunch plans a June 9, 2026 event.
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Anthropic’s allegations against Chinese firms expose AI training grey area
US artificial intelligence lab Anthropic’s allegation that Chinese AI firms were “distilling” its Claude models has exposed a widely used AI training technique, sparking heated debate over its accepted boundaries, an analyst said. Anthropic said in a blog post on Monday that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax AI used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with its Claude models. The US firm said the activity…
San Francisco., The U.S. Artificial Intelligence Company (IA) Anthropic yesterday claimed to have discovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illegally extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as an industrial-scale intellectual property theft.
Are Chinese AI labs cheating? US AI giant Anthropic alleges some are
Top United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises national security concerns.
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and 2 other Chinese AI models of stealing its data, people on internet say it is fair
Anthropic alleges three Chinese AI firms used thousands of fake accounts and millions of exchanges to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, raising concerns about intellectual property, security, and the use of distillation techniques within global AI competition.
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