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Public story · 2026-03-17 · source-backed
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
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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 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. ---
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 the most comprehensive model distillation attack forensics to date. MiniMax generated 13M+ exchanges targeting agentic coding and tool use. Moonshot AI targeted agentic reasoning and computer-use agents (3.4M exchanges). DeepSeek focused on reasoning and ce...
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...
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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