China rejects Anthropic allegations of using Claude to train their models

China rejects Anthropic's AI extraction allegations China has firmly rejected accusations by US artificial intelligence company Anthropic that Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI, carried out large-scale efforts to extract responses from its Claude models and use them to train their own systems.Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Beijing “advocates AI for good” and accused Anthropic of “distorting facts”.“We firmly oppose attempts to throw mud at China by distorting facts,” Mao said at a regular news conference on Friday.The comments came a day after Anthropic released a threat intelligence report alleging that several China-based AI companies had conducted what it called “illicit distillation” campaigns against Claude.What Anthropic’s report allegesDistillation is a common AI training technique in which a less powerful model learns from the outputs of a more capable model. Anthropic alleged that Chinese AI labs went further by using networks of accounts to systematically send prompts to Claude, collect its responses and use those exchanges to improve their own models.According to the report, the operations involved more than 151 million exc...