DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax Claude capability-extraction campaign
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DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax ran an industrial-scale campaign to extract Claude capabilities, using fraudulent accounts and commercial proxy services to gather training data for their own models. The operation generated more than 16 million exchanges across roughly 24,000 accounts, showing sustained and organized abuse rather than ordinary service use. Anthropic attributed the activity through request metadata, IP correlation, and infrastructure indicators. The campaign matters because model extraction can weaken safeguards and accelerate rival model development.
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24.02.2026 08:04 2 articles · 4mo ago
Anthropic discloses large-scale Claude capability extraction
Initial DisclosureAnthropic disclosed that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax ran industrial-scale campaigns against Claude, using fraudulent accounts and commercial proxy services to generate more than 16 million exchanges across about 24,000 accounts while targeting reasoning, agentic reasoning, tool use, coding, and computer vision; Anthropic said it attributed the activity using request metadata, IP address correlation, and infrastructure indicators, and it responded with classifiers, behavioral fingerprinting, stronger verification, and other safeguards.
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- Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model — thehackernews.com — 24.02.2026 08:04
- Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model — thehackernews.com — 24.02.2026 08:04