Anthropic on CNBC: Chinese rivals use dark web to illicitly distill Claude
Kr00ney · x · 2026-09-04
A CNBC special report covers Anthropic's fight against unauthorized distillation. Anthropic claims Chinese competitors like Moonshot illegally access its systems to train copycat models sold cheaper, with security lead Jacob Klein describing an "entire illicit ecosystem" that evades controls to spin up accounts at extreme scale — and admitting it's very hard to fully stop.
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