OpenAI, Anthropic accuse Chinese rivals of mass AI data theft
The Hindu
Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used a technique known as "distillation"
US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft.
Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used a technique known as "distillation": using outputs from a more powerful AI system to rapidly boost the performance of a less capable one.
"These campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication," the company said in a statement. "The window to act is narrow."
Distillation is a common practice within AI development, often used by companies to create cheaper, smaller versions of their own models.
The practice grabbed headlines a year ago when the release of a low-cost generative AI model from DeepSeek performed at a similar level to ChatGPT and other top American chatbots, upending assumptions of US dominance in the sensitive sector.
Anthropic said the companies achieved their ends through approximately 16 million exchanges with its Claude model and 24,000 fake accounts.
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