Anthropic accuses Chinese rivals of siphoning data from the Claude model

by | Feb 24, 2026 | E-commerce News

Anthropic alleged that three Chinese AI companies created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to siphon data from its Claude model. The startup stated that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax prompted the system more than 16 million times to train their own products. Executives warned that this “distillation” tactic is posing national security risks as foreign labs accelerate development.

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