Anthropic · OpenAI · China · AI Reasoning · Decrypt
OpenAI claims to have shut down a coordinated effort to copy the way its AI models think
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The campaign began on July 1, according to OpenAI.
Key facts
- On July 24 and 25 alone, it logged 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 users, part of a wider cluster of over 15,000 users
- Anthropic followed in February, accusing Chinese labs of using about 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Claude
- By April, the White House was saying foreign entities, primarily in China, were running industrial-scale distillation campaigns
- In June, Anthropic took the fight to Congress, asking for penalties for large-scale model extraction
Summary
OpenAI says a campaign that began July 1 sent 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 users on July 24-25 alone, within a cluster of over 15,000 users. OpenAI attributes a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi, and says it is unclear whether all operators came from a single actor. The target was the hidden "reasoning" OpenAI's models generate before answering, which OpenAI says could train another model without the original safeguards. OpenAI claims to have shut down a coordinated effort to copy the way its AI models think, and it traces a core cluster of that activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese startup behind the Kimi chatbot.