Alibaba allegedly harvested Claude AI with 28.8 M‑query distillation attack
Anthropic alleges Alibaba’s Qwen lab used nearly 25,000 fake accounts to run 28.8 million Claude queries between April 22 and June 5, a distillation campaign that copies model behavior without training costs. The attack skirts U.S. export controls and could fast‑track China’s AI capabilities, raising national‑security alarms.