Anthropic accuses Alibaba of 'largest known' Claude distillation attack

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Anthropic alleges Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million exchanges with Claude between April 22 and June 5, targeting agentic reasoning and software engineering capabilities. The company urged Congress to strengthen export controls and penalize such model extraction as a national security threat.

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Ars Technica·Ashley Belanger

Jun 27, 4:16 PM