US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models
CISA, NSA, and FBI say six Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek industrial-scale distilled Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI frontier models.
A joint CISA, NSA, and FBI advisory accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of extracting billions of tokens from frontier models via millions of API requests since late 2024. The agencies assess the operations likely had Chinese government awareness and represent a core development strategy. Tactics included fraudulent shared accounts, provider failover, proxy routing, and chain-of-thought extraction across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models.
- Six Chinese firms accused of industrial-scale distillation against US frontier AI models since late 2024
- Agencies assess Chinese government likely aware of the campaigns
- Tactics include shared accounts, transfer-station proxies, and automated failover to evade detection
- Recommendations include behavioral detection, response modification, and intelligence sharing
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U. S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024.
By Bill Toulas · bleepingcomputer.com
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