Anthropic Reports Chinese Labs Clone Claude Capabilities on Industrial Scale

Seven labs based in China have targeted Anthropic ’s generally available Claude models in illicit distillation attacks, Anthropic said in a report released Thursday (Sept. Unauthorized labs use illicit distillation to extract and mimic capabilities from frontier models, without having to invest the time, computational power and cost it would take to develop them independently, according to the report. While distillation can be a legitimate training method, it is illicit when the user is not