Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax of Industrial-Scale Distillation: 16M Queries, 24K Fake Accounts
Anthropic’s Bombshell: 16 Million Queries, 24,000 Fake Accounts, Three Chinese AI Labs Anthropic went public Monday with an accusation that reads like a corporate espionage indictment: three Chinese AI laboratories — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — coordinated an industrial-scale attack designed to extract Claude’s capabilities by flooding the API with queries from fake accounts. The numbers in Anthropic’s official blog post are staggering: 16 million queries run through 24,000 fraudulent accounts using proxy services to obscure the traffic’s origin. The goal, Anthropic alleges, was model distillation at scale — using Claude’s outputs as training data to build competing models without paying the research costs. ...