Anthropic accuses Alibaba of largest known AI distillation attack in letter to U.S. Senate committee
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Ashley Capoot
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Anthropic has sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee accusing Alibaba of orchestrating "the largest known distillation attack" to illicitly extract its AI capabilities. Distillation is a training method where a smaller AI model is built using outputs from a stronger model. The letter, addressed to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, alleges that Alibaba brazenly attempted to steal Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology. CNBC confirmed the letter's authenticity on Wednesday.
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· 3 pulledAnthropic sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs accusing the Chinese tech company Alibaba of 'brazenly' and 'illicitly' attempting to extract its artificial intelligence capabilities
The letter...said Alibaba carried out 'the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date.'
Distillation is an AI training method where a small, less capable model is built using outputs from an existing, stronger model.
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