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Chinese AI firms accused of routing user requests to Anthropic's Claude · 2 sources tracked

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Anthropic has accused Chinese AI companies Moonshot and DeepSeek of secretly routing user requests to its Claude models. These companies allegedly presented Claude's responses as their own and used the interactions to train their models. Anthropic's report details millions of such exchanges, raising concerns about user data privacy and potential industrial espionage. AI

IMPACT Raises significant concerns about data privacy and intellectual property theft in the AI industry, potentially leading to regulatory scrutiny.

RANK_REASON Accusations of covertly routing user requests and using proprietary model outputs for training by major AI labs.

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Chinese AI firms accused of routing user requests to Anthropic's Claude · 2 sources tracked

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Vincent Chow ·

    Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly routed user requests to Claude, Anthropic claims

    American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursday of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models, then showing users the responses as if they were from their own models. The new allegations mark a…

  2. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Breach Protocol ·

    Anthropic says Moonshot and DeepSeek quietly sent their users' requests to Claude

    <p>Anthropic says Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, two of China's best-known AI labs, silently forwarded some of their own customers' requests to Anthropic's Claude, displayed Claude's answers as if they came from Kimi or DeepSeek models, and kept the exchanges to train their own system…

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