Anthropic caught Chinese AI labs carrying out massive ‘distillation attack’ to rip off its technology

Anthropic has identified and shut down large-scale distillation attacks conducted by Chinese AI labs, including Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek. These entities attempted to use Claude to train their own proprietary AI models, effectively ripping off the technology. This incident highlights a critical need for enhanced cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to safeguard AI intellectual property. Anthropic successfully disrupted these efforts to prevent the unauthorized extraction of its model's capabilities by the targeted Chinese organizations.