Anthropic says safeguards cut Claude distillation 90%-99%

A query asking for analysis of closed-circuit television surveillance of a specific person did not stay inside the system that received it. According to Anthropic, the request reached Moonshot’s Kimi models and was secretly forwarded to Claude. Anthropic reported that it believed the user was affiliated with China’s People’s Liberation Army. Capabilities built for one model were, for a moment, answering someone else’s work—including a military-linked surveillance task. That quiet routing is what the company means by a distillation attack.

First reported by Independent Journal Review. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.