Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive AI distillation attack (opens in new tab)

Anthropic has formally accused Alibaba of conducting an industrial-scale campaign to illicitly extract capabilities from the Claude AI model. The San Francisco-based firm claims that operators linked to the Chinese tech giant utilized thousands of fraudulent accounts to perform nearly 29 million exchanges. This activity is described as the largest known instance of a distillation attack targeting Anthropic's proprietary technology. <a href="