GoKawiilAnthropic Accuses DeepSeek and Moonshot of Mass Query Harvesting to Clone Claude
Anthropic alleges that Chinese AI firms DeepSeek and Moonshot created thousands of fake accounts to funnel millions of real user queries into its models, a technique known as distillation used to replicate its AI's capabilities without building them independently. The company claims this activity violated its usage policies and represents a large-scale attempt to extract proprietary model behavior through automated querying.
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Distillation attacks let rivals shortcut years of costly training by mimicking outputs from frontier models, threatening the competitive advantage that justifies massive AI R&D spending. The accusation also sharpens U.S.-China tensions over AI development, raising questions about how leading labs can protect their models from being reverse-engineered via API access.
- Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and Moonshot of using fake accounts to extract data from its models
- Millions of real user queries were allegedly funneled through these accounts to enable distillation
- The dispute highlights growing concerns over IP protection in the global AI race
Source: wsj.com, 2026-09-10
Published there as: “Chinese AI Giants Accused of Sending Millions of User Queries to U.S. Models”
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