Anthropic alleges Alibaba led the largest Claude-cloning effort
TL;DR
Anthropic claims Alibaba conducted the largest illicit distillation campaign to clone Claude, using about 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million exchanges with Claude from April 22 to June 5 and evading detection with proxies; the firm argues such attacks threaten US AI leadership and urges Congress to update antitrust information-sharing, impose export controls on chips, and penalize Chinese labs to deter future distillation attempts.
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- Anthropic accuses Alibaba of campaign to 'brazenly' and 'illicitly' extract AI capabilities CNBC
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