Can Anthropic actually stop Chinese labs from distilling Claude?
Summary
A commentary questioning whether Anthropic's new anti-distillation defense, claimed to block 90-99% of distillation attacks, actually slows Chinese labs down given that high-quality expert datasets remain available for sale overseas by US data companies.
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