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US Agencies Warn of Chinese AI Firms' Large-Scale Model Distillation Attacks

US cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm on a massive AI heist, revealing that six Chinese tech firms have launched large-scale "distillation attacks" on American AI models, siphoning off billions of tokens since late 2022. This brazen cyber theft, involving millions of requests, is believed to have had the backing of the Chinese government.

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US Accuses China’s Moonshot AI of Illicit Model Distillation

The US has accused China's Moonshot AI of illicitly replicating a top AI model using a technique called model distillation, allowing it to quickly switch between methods to avoid detection. Moonshot AI allegedly built a sophisticated platform to pull off the feat, using powerful servers to train its own rival model, K3.

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