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First reported by bsky
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly extracting data from Claude AI model

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Using 25,000 Fake Accounts to Scrape Claude AI Conversations

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Jonathan Small

12d ago· 2 min readenNews
technologybusinessai ethicscorporate espionage

Summary

Anthropic has sent a letter to US Congress and White House officials accusing Chinese tech giant Alibaba of creating approximately 25,000 fake accounts to generate 28.8 million fake conversations with its AI model Claude. Anthropic alleges that Alibaba used this data to train a competing AI model without paying for the service, effectively stealing Anthropic's intellectual property. The accusation draws a parallel to the classic folk tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," framing Alibaba's actions as an elaborate heist.

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bskyAnthropic Accuses Alibaba of Using 25,000 Fake Accounts to Scrape Claude AI Conversationsentrepreneur.com

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In the classic folk tale, Ali Baba outwitted the forty thieves. According to Anthropic, the Chinese tech giant Alibaba has been running an elaborate heist of its own, only with 25,000 fake accounts, reports Bloomberg.
Anthropic sent a letter to Congress accusing Alibaba of running 28.8 million fake conversations with Claude to train a competing AI for free.
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Anthropic sent a letter to Congress accusing Alibaba of running 28.8 million fake conversations with Claude to train a competing AI for free.

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