• AI News Anthropic Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI DeepSeek allegedly targeted Claude’s reasoning capabilities, while generating ‘censorship-safe alternatives to politically sensitive questions.’ DeepSeek allegedly targeted Claude’s reasoning capabilities, while generating ‘censorship-safe alternatives to politically sensitive questions.’ Link Share Gift Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. • Inan 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 reportedearlier byThe 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 purposes,” including “to acquire powerful capabilities from other labs in a fraction of the time, and at a fraction of the cost, that it would take to develop them independently.” Anthropic adds that illicitly distilled models are “unlikely” to carry over existing safeguards. • “Foreign labs that distill American models can then feed these unprotected capabilities into military, intelligence, and surveillance systems - enabling authoritarian governments to deploy frontier AI for offensive cyber operations, disinformation campaigns, and mass surveillance,” Anthropic writes. • DeepSeek, whichcaused a stir in the AI industryfor its powerful but more efficient models, held over 150,000 exchanges with Claude and targeted its reasoning capabilities, according to Anthropic.
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- Anthropic has publicly accused Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot of illegally using its Claude model to train their own systems. The company claims the firms ran “industrial‑scale campaigns” that generated about 24,000 fake accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, targeting its reasoning abilities and producing censorship‑safe responses to politically sensitive queries. Anthropic warns that such illicit distillation can bypass built‑in safeguards, potentially enabling authoritarian governments to deploy AI for surveillance and disinformation. The firm urges the AI industry, cloud providers and lawmakers to curb distillation practices and consider restricting chip access to limit future misuse.
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