Anthropic making a lot of noise of being the victim of large scale distillation attacks (ie other AI firms, usually Chinese copying/scraping their model), but people have pointed out the hypocrisy that Anthropic themselves seems to have copied DeepSeek.

If you bypass the system prompt and ask Claude what model it is (e.g. via Open router), it'll reply that it's DeepSeek.

(Also I know, eww Reddit and X)

Claude sonnet 4.6 says it’s DeepSeek when system prompt is empty : r/DeepSeek - https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1rd5jw7/claude_sonnet_46_says_its_deepseek_when_system/

Claude Sonnet 4.6 distilled DeepSeek? : r/DeepSeek - https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1r9se7p/claude_sonnet_46_distilled_deepseek/

https://x.com/i/status/2026130112685416881

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

I think the reason they're making noise is cause they want to make a case to ban Chinese models entirely. Right now they have a problem that Chinese models are open and anybody can download and run their own version. That directly undermines the whole business model of providing them as a service. I bet they're going to try and argue that since DeepSeek and other Chinese companies stole their IP, these models are now illegal and can't be used in the US.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Please tell me these 16 million prompts cost Anthropic a lot of money

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

It would've been through the API access, so they'd get paid.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

Robin hood moment.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

Oh no, they used the thing I built using stolen data