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Anthropic Tells Senators Alibaba-Linked Accounts Made 29 Million Queries to Claude AI
Anthropic sent a June 10 letter to U.S. Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren stating that operators linked to Alibaba used thousands of fraudulent accounts for nearly 29 million exchanges with its Claude model. The letter urged penalties for distillation attacks and cited Defense Department claims about Alibaba. Alibaba has denied military ties and sued this week to exit a Pentagon blacklist.
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Anthropic stated that operators linked to Alibaba created thousands of fraudulent accounts and conducted nearly 29 million exchanges with its Claude AI model between April and June. The San Francisco-based company described the activity as distillation attacks in which answers from a stronger model are used to train a weaker one. The letter, dated June 10 and sent to U.S.
Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, said the exchanges targeted the model's ability to handle longer and more complex tasks as well as its decision-making processes. Anthropic stated that the campaign was conducted on an industrial scale and aimed at harvesting U.S. AI capabilities for use by Chinese firms.
The letter referenced U.S. Department of Defense statements that Alibaba and several other Chinese companies are tied to the Chinese military. Alibaba has denied any links to the Chinese military and sued the U.S.
Government this week to have its name removed from a Pentagon blacklist. Anthropic urged Congress to penalize companies behind such attacks and to increase measures preventing theft of U.S. AI technology.
The company stated that distillation attacks convert hundreds of billions of dollars in American investment into a subsidy for geopolitical competitors. Anthropic called the campaign the largest extraction campaign of its kind. Alibaba is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
