U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok
NSA, CISA and FBI accuse Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek of industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.
A joint bulletin from the NSA, CISA and FBI accuses China-based AI firms including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of systematic, industrial-scale distillation of U.S. frontier models. The agencies say billions of tokens were extracted from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok variants since at least late 2024 through APIs, cloud relays, obfuscated accounts and gray-market proxies, likely with Chinese government backing. Firms allegedly shared premium subscriptions across developer teams and used chain-of-thought extraction and automated failover to evade blocks. Mitigations include subtly altering responses to suspected distillers and correlating activity across providers, clouds and aggregators.
- DeepSeek allegedly distilled reasoning capabilities to train R1 and V3 models
- Premium subscriptions shared across teams enabled cheap bulk access to frontier models
- Access routed through VPNs, obfuscated accounts and Taobao-marketed proxy relays
- Google separately reported distillation campaigns exceeding 100 million prompts
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U. S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of American frontier models through distillation attacks.
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