Anthropic: Alibaba, Moonshot and DeepSeek siphoned off Claude's knowledge through almost 200 million queries
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According to Anthropic's report, models were trained on Claude's responses at a scale of almost 200 million exchanges; the report also describes cases of Claude being used in cyber operations, including operations against Ukraine.
In a new threat report, Anthropic described five "distillation" campaigns — training other models on Claude's responses — totaling almost 200 million exchanges. The largest, linked to Alibaba, produced 151 million queries from May to July through 3,500 accounts, up to 3 million a day; Moonshot ran about 300 thousand queries through 5,000 accounts in 10 days. To extract the model's hidden reasoning, the attackers disguised queries as a translation of its "working memory" into Japanese katakana. In the same report Anthropic says that a Russian espionage group used Claude to automate reconnaissance and phishing against Ukraine, and that students from Hunan, according to the report, launched swarms of agents against 50 organizations.
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