Anthropic says anti-distillation bans have blocked up to 99% of theft attempts
Anthropic says proxy networks ran hundreds of thousands of fake accounts, one lab sent 12,000 requests to extract reasoning, tens of thousands of accounts were banned often within two hours, and under 0.1% of legitimate requests were wrongly flagged.
Anthropic says it has cut attempts to steal claude's intelligence by up to 99% and there's a solid reason why Claude took this approach the aim goal is to stop rival labs from using millions of prompts to copy Claude's capabilities, especially its reasoning here's what's interesting from the look of things: > proxy networks running hundreds of thousands of fake accounts > one lab reportedly sent 12,000 requests designed to extract Claude's reasoning > tens of thousands of accounts banned, often within 2 hours > less than 0.1% of legitimate requests wrongly flagged, according to anthropic therefore, Anthropic stated that it is blocking trillions of tokens in paid traffic to protect its models what are your thoughts on this guys?