Anthropic says new safeguards sharply reduce AI distillation attacks

Anthropic said on Monday new measures designed to prevent rivals from copying the capabilities of its Claude AI models have reduced data harvested in so-called distillation attacks by about 90% to 99%.* Model distillation has emerged as a key concern for leading AI companies due to intensifying US-China competition, with firms including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google arguing the practice enables rivals to reproduce advanced capabilities more quickly and at lower cost* Anthropic said safeguards restricting access to Claude's reasoning have sharply reduced extraction attempts, with "the number of reasoning tokens extracted by distillers" now "10 to 100 times lower than…

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