Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of Claude distillation
February 23, 2026
DeepSeek
Anthropic
Anthropic publicly alleged the three Chinese labs used ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract 16M+ Claude conversations in violation of its ToS, including prompts to generate censorship-friendly substitutes.
Sources
- Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude · TechCrunch
- Detecting and preventing distillation attacks · Anthropic