
Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on Monday, Anthropic says the « industrial-scale campaigns » involved the creation of around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.
The three companies – DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot – are accused of « distilling » Claude, or training a smaller AI model based on a more advanced one. Though Anthropic says that distillation is a « legitimate training method, » it adds that it can « also be used for illicit purpose …