Anthropic is accusing China's Alibaba of exploiting its AI models in a large-scale attack
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Millions of interactions via 25,000 fraudulent accounts is a reminder that model theft and gray-zone distillation are now operational risks, not hypotheticals. If you're exposing high-value models via API, treat abuse detection, rate-limiting, and watermarking as core product work, not perimeter security.
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