Breaking News: Anthropic Accuses Chinese AI Companies of "Illicit Model Distillation."
Anthropic wrote today (Beijing Time, February 24): "We found that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax launched an industrial-scale model distillation attack on our models. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and conducted more than 16 million transactions with Claude, extracting Claude's capabilities to train and improve their own models."
Distillation is reasonable: AI laboratories use distillation to create smaller, cheaper models for customers. However, foreign laboratories illegally distilling U.S. models can remove security measures and transfer model capabilities into their own military, intelligence, and surveillance systems.
Several U.S. media outlets reported on Anthropic's allegations, pointing out that if such capabilities are applied to military or surveillance systems, it would raise concerns about U.S. national security.
[Witty] Comments: Anthropic accuses Chinese AI companies of launching a "mass-scale model distillation attack" on Claude. This accusation is full of double standards and moral hypocrisy, representing a farce of hegemony in the AI industry. Anthropic无偿攫取全人类公开数据、海量版权内容训练模型，未支付分文稿酬，却将他人合规技术学习污名为“攻击”；它把互联网公共成果当作免费基础设施，自己尽情收割，一旦被逆向学习便立刻祭出私有产权大旗，本质是典型的技术寻租与垄断护盘。
In economics, this is the spillover effect of competitive learning. Innovation has always originated from the flow and iteration of knowledge. However, Anthropic only wants to enjoy the technological dividends, build exclusive moats, and completely reject fair competition. On one hand, it profits from the wisdom of the entire human race, and on the other hand, it wields the big stick of rules to suppress later entrants. It also stirs up issues of military and security to spread threats. Its moral flexibility is astonishing. This accusation has nothing to do with technological justice; it is merely a political maneuver by Western AI giants to maintain their monopoly and curb innovation in developing countries. It fully exposes the self-serving nature and double standards of technological hegemony.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1857965700669511/
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