Anthropic has accused Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba of obtaining illicit access to Claude by creating fake accounts designed to access the AI model which the American company does not offer to Chinese groups.
In a letter to Congress, Anthropic said Alibaba had conducted the “largest campaign to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities”. It said the Chinese company used 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 28.8mn exchanges with Claude, which it said was a violation of its terms of service.
“Alibaba’s campaign targeted some of Claude’s most valuable capabilities, such as agentic reasoning, software engineering, and long-horizon tasks,” Anthropic wrote in a June 10 letter to the Senate Banking Committee.