Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to steal data from Claude AI for Qwen training
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Hassam Nasir
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Anthropic has accused Alibaba of orchestrating a large-scale distillation attack, using 25,000 fake accounts to query its Claude AI model 28.8 million times in order to train Alibaba's competing Qwen model. Anthropic further alleges Chinese government involvement in the operation. The incident reportedly led to the US imposing export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models due to national security concerns.
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· 3 pulledAnthropic accused Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to query Claude 28.8 million times in a distillation attack aimed at training Alibaba's Qwen model.
The Chinese government was allegedly involved, leading to US export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models amid security concerns.
Anthropic also claims Chinese government involvement, and says US export controls on its Mythos and Fable models followed shortly after.
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