Anthropic Calls Out AI Distillation

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

A screenshot of an Anthropic post claiming that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from Claude through millions of conversations. The joke is the dramatic, accusatory framing of AI companies copying and training on one another’s models, often shared as commentary on AI industry rivalry and model distillation. EN: A screenshot of an Anthropic post claiming that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from Claude through millions of conversations. The joke is the dramatic, accusatory framing of AI companies copying and training on one another’s models, often shared as commentary on AI industry rivalry and model distillation.

• @antichirst / 21825 2026-02-24