{"id":298916,"date":"2026-02-24T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:56:09","slug":"anthropic-accuses-deepseek-and-other-chinese-firms-of-using-claude-to-train-their-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298916\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an announcement on Monday<\/a>, Anthropic says the \u201cindustrial-scale campaigns\u201d involved the creation of around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/anthropic-accuses-chinese-companies-of-siphoning-data-from-claude-63a13afc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier by The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The three companies \u2014 DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot \u2014 are accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/topics\/knowledge-distillation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cdistilling\u201d Claude<\/a>, or training a smaller AI model based on a more advanced one. Though Anthropic says that distillation is a \u201clegitimate training method,\u201d it adds that it can \u201calso be used for illicit purposes,\u201d including \u201cto 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Anthropic adds that illicitly distilled models are \u201cunlikely\u201d to carry over existing safeguards. \u201cForeign labs that distill American models can then feed these unprotected capabilities into military, intelligence, and surveillance systems \u2014 enabling authoritarian governments to deploy frontier AI for offensive cyber operations, disinformation campaigns, and mass surveillance,\u201d Anthropic writes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">DeepSeek, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/598846\/deepseek-big-tech-ai-industry-nvidia-impac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caused a stir in the AI industry<\/a> for its powerful but more efficient models, held over 150,000 exchanges with Claude and targeted its reasoning capabilities, according to Anthropic. It\u2019s also accused of using Claude to generate \u201ccensorship-safe alternatives to politically sensitive questions about dissidents, party leaders, or authoritarianism.\u201d In a letter to lawmakers last week, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/openai-accuses-deepseek-distilling-us-models-gain-advantage-bloomberg-news-2026-02-12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similarly accused<\/a> DeepSeek of \u201congoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other U.S. frontier labs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Moonshot and MiniMax had more than 3.4 million and 13 million exchanges with Claude, respectively. Anthropic is calling on other members in the AI industry, cloud providers, and lawmakers to address distillation, adding that \u201crestricted chip access\u201d could limit model training and \u201cthe scale of illicit distillation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6166,363,364,111,43,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-298916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}