This happened over just six weeks between April and June. No hacking involved — they just used the API like a normal customer, at industrial scale, to extract Claude’s agentic reasoning and coding capabilities and train Qwen on it. Anthropic is calling it the largest “distillation attack” in the company’s history — bigger than DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax combined. And the uncomfortable part? It’s not clearly illegal under current law. That’s exactly why Anthropic sent the letter to Congress rather than filing a lawsuit. Made a full breakdown of what happened, how distillation attacks actually work, and why this connects directly to the Fable 5 export ban: https://youtu.be/g1d3yTR6E2Y Curious what people think — should mass-scale distillation be illegal, or is it just aggressive competition? submitted by /u/RajmaChawala
Originally posted by u/RajmaChawala on r/ArtificialInteligence