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Fraudulent-account abuse / illicit model distillation
Anthropic / fraudulent distillation accounts
Core issue:
February 23, 2026
Date:
Main public findings:
Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale
Cause of the violation:
Description of events
Recommendations:
Source:
Fraudulent account creation, proxy evasion, and insufficient abuse detection enabled illicit large-scale extraction of model outputs.
Fraudulent accounts, region-evasion tactics, or synthetic onboarding details were allegedly used to extract model outputs or bypass access restrictions at scale.
Tighten account-creation controls, monitor proxy patterns, limit extraction-like behavior, and coordinate cross-lab response to industrial abuse.