Description: Anthropic said it identified large-scale campaigns that used fraudulent accounts and proxy services to generate high volumes of Claude interactions to extract model capabilities for competitor training ("distillation"). Anthropic attributed the activity to DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax and said it involved millions of exchanges across thousands of accounts, violating its terms and access restrictions. Anthropic described detection measures, account controls, and indicator-sharing in response.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by DeepSeek , Moonshot AI , MiniMax and Proxy reseller services, which harmed Anthropic , Claude users , Anthropic customers and National security and intelligence stakeholders.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Claude , Claude API , Distillation , Model extraction , Account farming and Proxy access infrastructure
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1395
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-02-23
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Anthropic post-incident response
We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories---DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax---to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities to improve their own models. These labs generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude th…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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