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On February 23rd, [Anthropic published](https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks) something the industry had suspected but hadn't seen documented at this scale. Three Chinese AI labs (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax) ran coordinated campaigns against the Claude API. They generated over 16 million exchanges through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts. The goal was not to steal user data but to steal the model itself.