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Public story · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
Anthropic identified industrial-scale capability theft: 24K fake accounts generating 16M+ exchanges from DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax. MiniMax pivoted to new models within 24 hours of each Claude release — suggesting automated distillation pipelines.
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Anthropic identified 24,000+ fraudulent accounts generating 16M+ exchanges with Claude from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. The agent-specific targeting is key: Moonshot (3.4M exchanges) targeted agentic reasoning and tool use; MiniMax (13M) targeted agentic coding; DeepSe...
Anthropic disclosed distillation campaigns by three Chinese AI labs through 24,000 fraudulent accounts generating 16M+ exchanges. MiniMax drove 13M (code generation focus), Moonshot generated 3.4M (targeting agentic reasoning and tool use), DeepSeek produced 150K (reasoning an...
24,000+ fraudulent accounts generating 16M+ exchanges to steal Claude capabilities for competitor training. MiniMax drove 13M+ exchanges and pivoted to new models within 24 hours of release. Anthropic Blog
Anthropic published technical details of distillation attacks by DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI — 24,000 fraudulent accounts generating 16M+ exchanges targeting Claude's most differentiated capabilities: agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding. MiniMax led with 13M exchang...
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
25,000 fake accounts. 28.8 million Claude conversations. Six weeks. And the thing they were harvesting wasn't trivia, it was software engineering and agentic reasoning. In a June 24 letter to US senators and the White House, Anthropic alleged that operators tied to Alibaba's Q...
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