Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

The Hacker News · Sep 11, 2026

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Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Security September 11, 2026

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of a "teacher" to

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