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

Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on Monday, Anthropic says the “industrial-scale campaigns” involved the creation of around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.

The three companies – DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot – are accused of “distilling” Claude, or training a smaller AI model based on a more advanced one. Though Anthropic says that distillation is a “legitimate training method,” it adds that it can “also be used for illicit purpose …

Read the full story at The Verge.