Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive Knowledge Distillation “Attack”
June 24th, 2026From, U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY:
I wonder if people had enough time to run knowledge distillation operations against Fable 5 and Mythos 5 before access was cut off?
In the olden days, I got an alert from my company’s firewall indicating that it was under attack. I looked through the log and found hundreds of entries that said, “Hacked by Chinese!”
I showed it to my buddy and we both burst out laughing. (If I have one propeller in my beanie, that dude has about a hundred.)
The company’s lawyer walked past and wondered what we were laughing about. I showed him.
He was a former U.S. Navy pilot and knew nothing about computers at all.
His eyes bugged out and in all seriousness asked, “Are we under attack? Are they in the building?!”
My buddy and I burst out laughing even harder.
lol
It was a simpler time…
Via: Reuters:
U.S. AI company Anthropic accused Alibaba, ?the ?Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, of ?illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities in what it said was the largest ?known attack of its kind on the company, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
The strike by Alibaba is described as ?a “distillation” effort, which Anthropic has said involves ?training a less capable model on the outputs of a stronger one.
Anthropic said the campaign was conducted between April ?22 and ?June 5, 2026, and generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through almost ?25,000 fraudulent accounts.
Anthropic said in the letter that distillation is a way to help accelerate China’s ability to reach Anthropic’s advanced Mythos Preview capabilities.
