Anthropic slams Chinese AI firms for harvesting data from its Claude chatbot

Anthropic PBC is claiming that three Chinese artificial intelligence companies are illegally harvesting massive amounts of data from its chatbot Claude in an effort to accelerate the development of their own platforms. In a blog post today, Anthropic called out DeepSeek Ltd., Moonshot and MiniMax, three of China’s most prominent AI firms, accusing them of creating thousands of fraudulent Claude accounts to generate millions of conversations and use that data to train their own chatbots. DeepSeek is accused of engaging in 150,000 interactions with Claude, while Moonshot reportedly had more than 3.4 million and MiniMax had 13 million, Anthropic said….