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Anthropic Discloses Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks.

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DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created 24,000 fraudulent accounts generating 16 million exchanges to extract Claude's outputs. 33.5 million views, 55,000 likes. First time Anthropic publicly named competitors and quantified IP extraction scope. Source

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