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Anthropic alleges 24,000 fake accounts used for distillation

development2026-02-24

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Anthropic alleges DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and prompted Claude more than 16 million times to distill its outputs into their own products.

Reported metric: 24,000 accounts / 16M prompts

Reporting date: 2026-02-24 (not necessarily the event date)

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Anthropic alleges 24,000 fake accounts used for distillation
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Reporting date: 2026-02-24
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-24-anthropic-alleges-16m-distillation-prompts
Claim: Anthropic alleges DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and prompted Claude more than 16 million times to distill its outputs into their own products.
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- Welcome to February 24, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-24-2026
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