Anthropic alleges Chinese AI firms covertly extracted Claude reasoning data via distillation
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Anthropic alleges that Chinese AI developers used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to siphon reasoning data from its flagship model, Claude, and in some cases used Claude as a covert back end for their own apps.
The company's claims are its own; the reporting does not independently verify them.
The allegations are reported alongside other government concern about large-scale distillation: a joint advisory from the NSA, FBI and CISA last month, and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's July warning about the practice.
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AIAnthropic claims Chinese AI developers used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to extract reasoning data from its flagship model, Claude. The company says some firms used Claude as a covert back end for their own apps. A joint advisory from the NSA, FBI and CISA last month, and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's July warning about large-scale distillation, add to the allegations.
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