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South China Morning Post · Hong Kong / China · Anthropic accuses Alibaba of largest-ever AI distillation attack on Claude
SCMP notes that distillation occupies a legal grey area, since no US statute explicitly criminalises querying a rival model, and that Anthropic's case rests on terms-of-service violation rather than IP theft, weakening its legal standing in international forums.
“Anthropic's distilling charges against Chinese firms expose an AI training grey area with no clear legal prohibition.”