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Anthropic accuses Chinese AI firms of secretly using Claude to train models

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI firms of secretly using Claude to train models

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U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic has accused Chinese AI developers of “engaging in aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities,” and stealing from U.S. AI models.A September report from Anthropic stated that for two years, companies such as “DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests from U.S. frontier AI models, including variants of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok.”It also stated that the Chinese government was “likely aware of it.” However, a report in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) has expressed skepticism regarding the claims.The U.S.

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