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Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI
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Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI AI company Anthropic alleges that Chinese firms DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot have misused its Claude AI model through extensive fraudulent account creation and data exchanges, a practice known as "distillation." Anthropic warns that such illicitly distilled models may lack safeguards and could be exploited by authoritarian governments for malicious purposes. The company urges industry-wide action, including restricted chip access, to combat this issue. - Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot of misusing its Claude AI model. - The alleged misuse involved "industrial-scale campaigns" with approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts and over 16 million exchanges. - Companies are accused of "distilling" Claude to improve their own AI products, a method that can be used illicitly to acquire advanced capabilities cheaply. - Anthropic warns that distilled models may lack safeguards and could be used by authoritarian governments for cyber operations, disinformation, and surveillance. - DeepSeek is specifically accused of targeting Claude's reasoning capabilities and generating "censorship-safe alternatives" to politically sensitive questions. - OpenAI has also accused DeepSeek of "free-riding" on U.S. AI labs' capabilities. - Anthropic calls for industry collaboration, cloud provider involvement, and lawmaker action to address distillation, suggesting restricted chip access could limit illicit training. - Moonshot and MiniMax had over 3.4 million and 13 million exchanges with Claude, respectively. Continue reading https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/883243/anthropic-claude-deepseek-china-ai-distillation