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Anthropic's February 2026 post says three labs it names, DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax, generated "over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts."

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We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities to improve their own models. These labs generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts

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Detecting and preventing distillation attacks
Anthropic · 2026-02-23

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“Anthropic's February 2026 post says three labs it names, DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax, generated "over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts.".” ai notis, checked 13 Oct 2026. Source: Detecting and preventing distillation attacks (Anthropic). https://ainotis.com/c/1314

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ai notis. (2026, October 13). Anthropic's February 2026 post says three labs it names, DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax, generated "over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts." [Checked claim 1314]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/1314

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