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Alibaba-linked lab allegedly distilled Claude 28.8M times in massive AI attack

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Anthropic has reported that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab conducted a massive "distillation attack" against its Claude model, involving approximately 28.8 million API interactions over six weeks. This adversarial technique used Claude's outputs to train a smaller competitor model, Qwen, focusing on capabilities like software engineering and reasoning. This incident is significantly larger than previous distillation allegations against other AI labs and highlights the difficulty in defending against such large-scale, coordinated operations that exploit API access. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing threat of adversarial data extraction and prompts calls for regulatory action and enhanced threat intelligence sharing.

RANK_REASON Significant scale of alleged adversarial AI model training data extraction reported by a major AI lab. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba-linked lab allegedly distilled Claude 28.8M times in massive AI attack

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  1. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Peremptory ·

    Anthropic Told the Senate That Alibaba Queried Claude 28.8 Million Times

    <p>The attack didn't look like an attack. That's the detail worth sitting with.</p> <p>Between April 22 and June 5 of this year, operators Anthropic links to Alibaba's Qwen lab ran approximately 28.8 million interactions with Claude through roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts. No …

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