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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of copying Claude by asking it millions of questions
Anthropic has sent a letter to U.S.
Key takeaways
- Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million interactions to glean proprietary information about Claude.
- The fake accounts asked Claude complex questions related to its advanced software engineering and agentic reasoning features.
- If leading models can be imitated easily, there will be less incentive to innovate.
Anthropic has sent a letter to U.S. lawmakers accusing groups linked to Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 28.8 million interactions with Claude. Anthropic claims this massive campaign was designed to extract proprietary information and capabilities from its model through model distillation, accelerating Alibaba's own AI development. Alibaba has not publicly responded to the allegations.
By the numbers
- 25,000
- Fraudulent accounts allegedly used by Alibaba-linked groups
- 28.8M
- Interactions generated to extract Claude's capabilities
How it unfolded
- Anthropic levied similar distillation claims against DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax
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Common questions
- What happened with Anthropic?
- Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million interactions to glean proprietary information about Claude.
- Where can I read the original report?
- Read the full report at techradar.
