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Anthropic distillation attack report on Chinese AI labs
6x SOURCES 🌐📅 2026-02-23
⚡ Score: 9.5
+++ Three Chinese labs allegedly ran 16M+ queries through fake accounts to distill Claude's reasoning, proving that when your model works well, imitation becomes the sincerest form of IP theft. +++
"Anthropic just published their findings on industrial-scale distillation attacks.
Three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated 16 million+ exchanges with Claude to extract its reasoning capabilities.
Key findings:
- MiniMax alone f..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 21 comments
😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 Intellectual property rights • Regulation and control • Advancement of civilization
💬 "It seems to me they are using subscription accounts to do this."
• "Gate keeping Knowledge helps no one but few oligarchs and buisness man, and also leads to the stagnation of quality."
"Anthropic dropped a pretty detailed report — three Chinese AI labs were systematically extracting Claude's capabilities through fake accounts at massive scale.
DeepSeek had Claude explain its own reasoning step by step, then used that as training data. They also made it answer politically sensiti..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 241 comments
😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Anthropic data usage • Open source LLMs • Risk of low-cost AI systems
💬 "Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google stole their training data"
• "anyone who is likely to build a mission critical system on an LLM will understand the implications"
+++ A Trump official alleges China's upcoming model relied on Nvidia's cutting-edge chips despite US restrictions, raising questions about enforcement rigor versus the laws of physics and supply chains. +++
🎯 Proprietary vs. Open-Source Tools • Commercialization of Science • LLM Capabilities and Limitations
💬 "Imagine Isaac Newton (and/or Gottfried Leibniz) saying, 'Today we're announcing the availability of new mathematical tools'."
• "The key idea of CAG is to inject in real time capabilities from our foundation tool into the stream of content that LLMs generate."
🎯 Model Performance Comparisons • Architectural Innovations • Community Discussions
💬 "72.8% vs 69.7% on what metric?"
• "KDA keeps some traditional attention in the mix (hybrid approach), RWKV-7 goes fully recurrent with no attention at all."
via Arxiv👤 Lexiang Tang, Weihao Gao, Bingchen Zhao et al.📅 2026-02-20
⚡ Score: 7.4
"Recent work on test-time scaling for large language model (LLM) reasoning typically assumes that allocating more inference-time computation uniformly improves correctness. However, prior studies show that reasoning uncertainty is highly localized: a small subset of low-confidence tokens disproportio..."
🎯 Interpretability of Language Models • Limitations of Current Approaches • Potential Applications of Interpretable LLMs
💬 "Token-level attribution is useful, but without a framework for how the model reasons, you're still explaining shadows on the wall."
• "Interpretability usually comes with a quality tax."
🎯 AI Model Distillation • AI Safety Concerns • Data Ownership and Regulation
💬 "Countermeasures. We are developing Product, API and model-level safeguards designed to reduce the efficacy of model outputs for illicit distillation"
• "If their capabilities can't exist without the work of the frontier labs, they're less equal competitors and more the guys trying to sell you a shoddy knockoff"
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via Arxiv👤 Aaron Louis Eidt, Nils Feldhus📅 2026-02-20
⚡ Score: 7.2
"While mechanistic interpretability has developed powerful tools to analyze the internal workings of Large Language Models (LLMs), their complexity has created an accessibility gap, limiting their use to specialists. We address this challenge by designing, building, and evaluating ELIA (Explainable L..."
via Arxiv👤 Han Bao, Yue Huang, Xiaoda Wang et al.📅 2026-02-23
⚡ Score: 7.1
"Large language models are being deployed in complex socio-technical systems, which exposes limits in current alignment practice. We take the position that the dominant paradigm of General Alignment, which compresses diverse human values into a single scalar reward, reaches a structural ceiling in se..."
via Arxiv👤 Usman Anwar, Tim Bakker, Dana Kianfar et al.📅 2026-02-20
⚡ Score: 7.1
"Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitors are LLM-based systems that analyze reasoning traces to detect when outputs may exhibit attributes of interest, such as test-hacking behavior during code generation. In this paper, we use information-theoretic analysis to show that non-zero mutual information between C..."
"**TL;DR:** We attribute model behavior to interpretable vectors (probes, SAE features) instead of individual test examples. This makes TDA more semantically meaningful and 20× faster than influence functions.
**The Problem:**
Standard influence functions have two issues:
\- Condition on single te..."
🎯 AI reasoning limitations • Contextual understanding • Unstable model performance
💬 "The test highlights a key limitation in current AI: the difference between pattern matching and true, grounded reasoning."
• "The more important result is that the latest generation actually doesn't fail."
🎯 Legacy system maintenance • COBOL modernization • AI's role in migration
💬 "The entire reason corporations don't move off the mainframe is due to the cost and complexity of migrating the old code"
• "Software automatically translating COBOL to (say) Java has been around for a long time"
via Arxiv👤 M. Reza Ebrahimi, Michaël Defferrard, Sunny Panchal et al.📅 2026-02-20
⚡ Score: 7.0
"Despite the remarkable practical success of transformer-based language models, recent work has raised concerns about their ability to perform state tracking. In particular, a growing body of literature has shown this limitation primarily through failures in out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization,..."
via Arxiv👤 Yutong Xin, Qiaochu Chen, Greg Durrett et al.📅 2026-02-20
⚡ Score: 6.9
"Large language models have achieved striking results in interactive theorem proving, particularly in Lean. However, most benchmarks for LLM-based proof automation are drawn from mathematics in the Mathlib ecosystem, whereas proofs in software verification are developed inside definition-rich codebas..."
"This study presents an ensemble technique, SPQ (SVD-Pruning-Quantization), for large language model (LLM) compression that combines variance-retained singular value decomposition (SVD), activation-based pruning, and post-training linear quantization. Each component targets a different source of inef..."
via Arxiv👤 Xiaotong Ji, Rasul Tutunov, Matthieu Zimmer et al.📅 2026-02-20
⚡ Score: 6.8
"Decoding sits between a language model and everything we do with it, yet it is still treated as a heuristic knob-tuning exercise. We argue decoding should be understood as a principled optimisation layer: at each token, we solve a regularised problem over the probability simplex that trades off mode..."
"I’ve been stuck on the recent back-and-forth between Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis, especially the part about whether LLMs are just "approximate Turing Machines" or a fundamental dead end for true reasoning. It’s pretty wild to see LeCun finally putting his money where his mouth is by chairing the b..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 24 comments
🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Hallucination in generative models • Limitations of statistical models • Interpretability and transparency
💬 "I think hallucination is a failure mode of statistics *as a whole*"
• "EBMs probably won't solve hallucinations."
via Arxiv👤 Lingwei Gu, Nour Jedidi, Jimmy Lin📅 2026-02-23
⚡ Score: 6.6
"How do large language models (LLMs) know what they know? Answering this question has been difficult because pre-training data is often a "black box" -- unknown or inaccessible. The recent release of nanochat -- a family of small LLMs with fully open pre-training data -- addresses this as it provides..."
"I chose three small, recent, and different MoE models that fit my VRAM for a quick assessment (these are not models I actually use).
The goal is to check on MXFP4 and evaluate the smallest quantization variants.
For the non initiated:
KLD (KL Divergence): Measures "Faithfulness." It shows how muc..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 6 comments
🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Quantization techniques • Model optimization • Hardware performance
💬 "You can get literally better performance and KL from base llama quants."
• "As long as you have enough system ram and storage space you can theoretically quant everything eventually."
via Arxiv👤 Fahmida Liza Piya, Rahmatollah Beheshti📅 2026-02-23
⚡ Score: 6.5
"Large language models (LLMs) offer substantial promise for automating clinical text summarization, yet maintaining factual consistency remains challenging due to the length, noise, and heterogeneity of clinical documentation. We present AgenticSum, an inference-time, agentic framework that separates..."
💬 "If it's all negative they just stop caring and you get companies lot Google who just don't give a shit anymore."
• "Why can't Firefox just be a browser with great html, css, js rendering and then have a bunch of toggles for extra crap that people want?"
"We run ML systems in production. LLM API costs hit $3,200 last month. Actually analyzed where money went.
**68% - Repeat queries hitting API every time** Same questions phrased differently. "How do I reset password" vs "password reset help" vs "can't login need reset". All full API calls. Same answ..."
"Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by conditioning generation on retrieved external documents, but the effect of retrieved context is often non-trivial. In realistic retrieval settings, the retrieved document set often contains a mixture of documents that vary..."