Anthropic accused Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to steal its AI capabilities

The AI company told U.S. senators that Alibaba ran nearly 29 million exchanges with its Claude models through fraudulent accounts

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Anthropic accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of conducting a large-scale campaign to extract the capabilities of its Claude AI models, according to CNBC.

In a letter dated June 10 addressed to Sen. Tim Scott and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Anthropic described the effort as "the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date." The letter was sent to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

The technique involves training a weaker model on the outputs generated by a more powerful one, allowing developers to replicate capabilities without building from scratch. According to the letter,........

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