US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft
TL;DR
Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft. OpenAI leveled similar charges last month. Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used a technique known as “distillation” – using outputs from a more powerful AI system to rapidly boost the performance of a less capable one. Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
Nauti notes that distillation is digital pickpocketing; teams building Claude must treat output flows as trade secrets or Chinese copycats will inject that muscle straight into their own models.
Summary
Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft. OpenAI leveled similar charges last month.
Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used a technique known as “distillation” – using outputs from a more powerful AI system to rapidly boost the performance of a less capable one. Continue reading...
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