A war between Anthropic and Alibaba?

Reddit r/artificial 07/05/26, 07:10 PM News

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Summary

Anthropic accused Alibaba of creating tens of thousands of fake Claude accounts for distillation attacks, leading to stricter guardrails that are affecting legitimate users.

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of creating tens of thousands of fake Claude accounts to scrape Claude of its intellectual property via distillation attacks. Alibaba retaliates by telling their official (not contracted) employees to stop using Claude Code. I'm noticing from Reddit posts and comments that Claude has gotten much more wary of what it determines as strange prompting requests? There is an article indicating that Fable 5 has been "hardened" against distillation attacks, but it's locking out some legitimate users and refusing on innocuous requests. Seems like a lot of users are caught in the middle?

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