Anthropic Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Unauthorized Use of Claude Model for Training
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Emma Roth
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Summary
Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot—of conducting industrial-scale campaigns to misuse its Claude AI model for training their own products. The alleged misuse involved creating approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts and engaging in over 16 million exchanges with Claude to 'distill' or train smaller AI models based on Anthropic's more advanced technology. While Anthropic acknowledges that distillation is a legitimate training method, it claims these companies engaged in unauthorized use of its proprietary AI system.
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The 'industrial-scale campaigns' involved the creation of around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude.
The three companies — DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot — are accused of 'distilling' Claude, or training a smaller AI model based on a more advanced one.
Though Anthropic says that distillation is a 'legitimate training method,' it add
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