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Anthropic Disrupts Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks by Seven China-Based AI Labs
Anthropic announced on September 11, 2026, that it detected and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against its Claude AI model, allegedly orchestrated by seven China-based AI labs, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (Zhipu), and MiniMax. The attacks involved mass querying of Claude to generate training data for competing models, bypassing licensing and access controls. While knowledge distillation is a legitimate technique, Anthropic characterizes these actions as violations of its terms of service and a threat to its proprietary technology.
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