Anthropic accuses Chinese startups of harvesting Claude data to distill rival chatbots
Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used about 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 16 million conversations with Claude to train their own chatbots via distillation, violating its terms and China restrictions. The claim, echoed by OpenAI, frames data harvesting for AI as a national-security risk and has spurred calls for rapid industry and policy action, amid related copyright lawsuits and Pentagon considerations.